deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
were deprecating
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past progressiveof deprecate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But it hasn't any of the deteriorating effect you were deprecating.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
All this time he was fighting a desperate battle against backstairs influences, which with true instinct were deprecating and counteracting his schemes of aggrandizement and national reorganization.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The eyes that she lifted to her husband were deprecating, beseeching, heavy with a speechless pain.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
