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Depreciative

adjective
1.
Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.  Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory.  "Depreciatory effects on prices"
2.
Tending to diminish or disparage.  Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting.  "Managed a deprecating smile at the compliment" , "Deprecatory remarks about the book" , "A slighting remark"





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"Depreciative" Quotes from Famous Books



... to girls from which I select the following: Beautiful Autumn, Charming Flower, Jade Pure, Lucky Pearl, Precious Harp, Covet Spring; and the parent's way of speaking of his little girl, when not wishing to be self-depreciative, is to call her his "Thousand ...
— The Chinese Boy and Girl • Isaac Taylor Headland


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