deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
will deprecate
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future tenseof deprecate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Psychiatrists will deprecate this skepticism but will join the rest of the cinema audience in applauding Carefree's four dances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another class will hail the prospect of Emancipation, but will deprecate the length of time.
From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 by John Alexander Logan
His clean linen collar and his well-made American boots are conspicuous upon him, and he will deprecate on your behalf and his own the discomfort and squalor of his native surroundings.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
Some Socialists will deprecate what may seem to them the unwise frankness of the paper on "The Nihilism of Socialism."
From Socialism: Positive and Negative by Robert Rives La Monte
He will deprecate your compliment a little incoherently.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 by Various
