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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 Phillips, Chester Arthur

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 Howells, William Dean

He should have looked humbly at her and, with meek entreating eye, have deprecated her anger.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony