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Depreciatory   Listen
adjective
Depreciatory  adj.  Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
Synonyms: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory.






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"Depreciatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... class of about thirty individuals more, much looked down upon by the others, and not deemed greatly worth the counting, seeing that it consisted of only lassies. And here, too, the early individual development seems nicely correspondent with an early national one. In his depreciatory estimate of contemporary woman, the boy is always a true savage. The old parish school of the place had been nobly situated in a snug corner, between the parish churchyard and a thick wood; and from ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller



Words linked to "Depreciatory" :   decreasing, depreciative, belittling, slighting, deprecatory, deprecating, deprecative, uncomplimentary, depreciate



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