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

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 Kemp, Harry

Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.

From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall

Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.

From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)