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

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

Next: ‘Aia’ is generally an accumulative yet depreciative termination.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Succeeding generations adopting their depreciative term have turned it into one of glory so that Gothic art is now in highest honor.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)