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

Countess Anna asks of Count Treurenberg, in a rather depreciative tone, just before they reach their gondola.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

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)

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 Derbyshire, Charles E.