depreciative

Example Sentences

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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

Some of the commentaries on Auenbrugger's work are not entirely depreciative, however.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people.

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords. 

From Speeches: Literary and Social by Dickens, Charles