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

I merely wish to point out a perfectly legitimate and even important signification of the terms high and low, quite apart from their popular employment as laudatory or depreciative epithets.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert

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

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

How good he was! he who was as scornfully depreciative of his own merits as if the bones of another Mr. Clarke had been bleaching in some distant cave in imperishable evidence of his guilt.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)