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
These positive positions are no more justified than those of our forefathers which we have deprecated.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
It was deeply distasteful to him to do anything melodramatic and conspicuous, anything Mr. van der Luyden would have deprecated and the club box condemned as bad form.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
It was precisely such an episode as Christine's mother would have deprecated in horror, and as Christine herself intensely loathed.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
