depreciatory
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- depreciatively adverb
- nondepreciative adjective
- nondepreciatively adverb
- nondepreciatory adjective
- undepreciative adjective
- undepreciatory adjective
Etymology
Origin of depreciatory
First recorded in 1795–1805; depreciate + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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Any depreciatory anecdotes would be very telling, and serve to evoke indignant free replies from those who wouldn't guess they were jumping to a prepared bait.
From Project Gutenberg
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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He limped along a pace or so behind, making depreciatory noises in response to these flattering remarks and taking stock of the very appreciative person who uttered them.
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Perhaps political party is more universal than any other bad influence without, in misguiding Englishmen into ill-natured, or contemptuous, or depreciatory judgments of their neighbours and fellow-townsmen.
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His adjective "little" was not depreciatory; Malachi Hill was, in fact, short.
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