Crossword clues for deprecatory
deprecatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deprecatory \dep"re*ca*to*ry\ (d[e^]p"r[-e]*k[.a]*t[-o]*r[y^]), a. [L. deprecatorius.]
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Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Humble and deprecatory letters.
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Serving to deprecate; expressing a low opinion of.
Syn: belittling, disparaging, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Late Latin deprecatorius, from deprecat-, past participle stem of deprecari (see deprecation).
Wiktionary
a. That deprecates; apologetic or disparaging
WordNet
adj. tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
Usage examples of "deprecatory".
A little jab here, a crude comment on his bodily functions there, a deprecatory nod in the direction of his ancestry slipping in to stick him from behind before his cruder counterjabs could have any effect.
Warlock gave a final deprecatory glance at the twisted, sealed-off plumbing, peered briefly into an empty airing cupboard, then went again to the cabinet.
I confess with shame, it was an unpardonable omission to proceed so far as I have already done, before I had performed the due discourses, expostulatory, supplicatory, or deprecatory, with my good lords the critics.
Maria, her face flushed and dark eyes flashing, gesticulating and clearly mad through, was addressing Andrea in far from low tones of not even barely-controlled fury: Andrea, for his part, was deprecatory, placatory, trying to hush her up with about the same amount of success as Canute had in holding back the tide, and looking apprehensively around.