depreciator

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This depreciator and enemy of Vivian was the man who, but a few months before, had been his political proneur and unblushing flatterer, Mr. Wharton.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria

She was amused and interested, and she now and then kept making little disparaging criticisms to herself, in order to sustain her place as the cool depreciator of man.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

He is a warm admirer of Wordsworth, and, as Mr. Arnold tells us, an excessive depreciator of Byron.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

Not that he is usually a depreciator of his former leader, of whose military genius and great achievements he ever speaks with respect amounting to veneration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various