Example Sentences

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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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The eyes that she lifted to her husband were deprecating, beseeching, heavy with a speechless pain.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

But it hasn't any of the deteriorating effect you were deprecating.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth