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
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 Rives, Hallie Erminie
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
His tone was so deprecative that Courtney was sharply awakened by it.
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by Chester, George Randolph
