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depreciatory

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de·pre·cia·to·ry  (d-prsh-tôr, -tr) also de·pre·cia·tive (-sh-tv, -sh-tv)
adj.
1. Diminishing in value.
2. Disparaging; belittling.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.depreciatory - tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value; "a depreciating currency"; "depreciatory effects on prices"
depreciating, depreciative
decreasing - becoming less or smaller
2.depreciatory - tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative
uncomplimentary - tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage
Translations
depreciatory
adj → abschätzig, herabsetzend


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In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
He suspected the Archdeacon of not having read them; he was in painful doubt as to what was really thought of them by the leading minds of Brasenose, and bitterly convinced that his old acquaintance Carp had been the writer of that depreciatory recension which was kept locked in a small drawer of Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well-favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or , even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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