deprecative
Example Sentences
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He is the rarest kind of supersalesman: an uncomplicated man who is genuinely deprecative of himself and sold on his product.
From Time Magazine Archive
His tone was so deprecative that Courtney was sharply awakened by it.
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by George Randolph Chester
She merely rocked a trifle faster and turned a smile which she strove to make amusedly deprecative upon her hostess.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
