Sentence example with the word 'deprecatory'

deprecatory

abusive, blameful, condemnatory, denunciatory, derisory, disparaging, inveighing, pejorative, ridiculing, self-deprecating, self-effacing, vilifying

Definition adj. tending to diminish or disparage

Last update: July 7, 2015


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Hence ius Quiritium in Roman law is full Roman citizenship. Subsequently the term lost the military associations due to the original conception of the people as a body of warriors, and was applied (sometimes in a deprecatory sense, cf.   [Please select]

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The girl was deprecatory at one moment, appealing to Robert.   [Please select]

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Max delivered himself of the deprecatory wave.   [Please select]

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"Yet a moment, sheik," said Ben-Hur, with a deprecatory gesture.   [Please select]

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"I'm afraid," returned Hayward, with a deprecatory smile, "that it's your own turn, Bob."'   [Please select]

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When her own were touched, there was a youthful flushing, a deprecatory smile.   [Please select]

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"Oh, certainly," laughed Frank, much amused at the man's deprecatory manner.   [Please select]

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"It vill vash," said Poopy, in a deprecatory tone.   [Please select]

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But even smoking never interfered with her pleasant, rather deprecatory, smile.   [Please select]

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Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.   [Please select]

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Daney replied to this encomium with a deprecatory shrug and hoped The Laird would never ask _him who had made the bargain_.   [Please select]

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