Thesaurus / depreciatory
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But recent discoveries have brought to light many important examples which completely disprove his depreciatory estimate.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWBut against any such depreciatory remarks we have to set Chopin's high opinion of Zywny's teaching capability.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSWe have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSNay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHAnd depreciatory remarks are slightingly introduced concerning the work at other agencies.
HESPEROTHEN; NOTES FROM THE WEST, VOL. II (OF 2)W. H. RUSSELLIt was not only the soldiers who took this depreciatory view of France.
THE MARNEEDITH WHARTONRomola did not make this self-depreciatory statement in a tone of anxious humility, but with a proud gravity.
ROMOLAGEORGE ELIOTBad does not acquire its unqualified depreciatory meaning till much later.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEGEORG BRANDESDifferent Danish authors had recently written about the town, and in as depreciatory a strain as they could.
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTHGEORGE BRANDESThese grown-up boys of ours are shy and self-depreciatory in love, and they run like deer when they think they are not wanted.
'OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!' AND 'ISN'T THAT JUST LIKE A MAN!'IRVIN SHREWSBURY COBBWORDS RELATED TO DEPRECIATORY
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