deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
have deprecated
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present perfectof deprecate.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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If you say you barely squeaked through Physics for Poets, you have deprecated yourself twice in one sentence.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2015
President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have urged international agreements for the wider use of silver, and have deprecated independent action by any one nation.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
In fact, the door-service at Mrs. Montgomery's was something she would probably have deprecated if any one had asked her to do so.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
Something in Venner's manner toward this newcomer indicated to the familiars that he might have deprecated this deliberate entrance armored in self-satisfaction.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
