deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
has deprecated
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present perfectof deprecate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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To touring U.S. bigwigs, Lord McGowan has deprecated the U.S. antitrust acts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, for example, has deprecated all talk in regard to matters of this sort, saying, in effect: What difference does it make?
From Our Unitarian Gospel by Minot J. (Minot Judson) Savage
But Ireland still holds the floor, though Mr. Asquith is frugal of information as to the prospective Irish Bill and has deprecated discussion of the Hardinge Report, the most scarifying public document of our times.
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
