- a variation of depreciatory.
depreciative
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Many goldbugs cite the troubling depreciative nature of fiat paper currencies that aren't backed up by anything real.
From US News ● Jun. 22, 2016
As Katherine Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, points out the term “female” has had depreciative connotations for longer than one might expect.
From Time ● Apr. 19, 2016
In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
During the journey he related with an indifferent air his hunting exploits in this or that forest of the Peninsula, adopting a tone somewhat depreciative, as suited the case, toward hunting in Filipinas.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
If Alessandro became execrated as "The Tyrant and Ravisher of Florence," Lorenzino was scouted as "A monster and a miracle," and his depreciative nickname underwent a new spelling—"Lorenzaccio,"— "Lorenzo the Terrible!"
From The Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
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