deprecate
Example Sentences
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His own company SpaceX, he now says, despite previously deprecating the moon, will focus on developing a “self-growing city” there “in less than 10 years.”
“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”
A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”
From Los Angeles Times
As early as 1989, Gaines had conceived of a show that would juxtapose powerful contemporary work by Black Americans with deprecating excerpts by art critics, highlighting the profound mismeasure of these artists’ achievements.
From New York Times
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