Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile. But no smile answered him from her set face. |
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He met each interviewer on deck with a deprecatory smile, and the hat pushed back on his head. |
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These criticisms of his theological proposal should not in any way be interpreted as deprecatory of the project in hand. |
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Other ranking officers have also made deprecatory and abusive comments about the defence minister at international meetings. |
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The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision. |
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In my more than two years of writing on the web, I have had enough deprecatory e-mails from readers who do not share my high opinion of the man. |
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The book is surely demeaning, and for the Germans the main character conjures up a familiar and deprecatory stereotype. |
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He is a tremendous comic when he wants to be, as well as arrogant and deprecatory, with humor, when he feels that it is appropriate. |
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It was while defending himself that he was alleged to have made deprecatory remarks about the leader. |
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The end of the eulogy abandons the apparently deprecatory mythological images. |
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During the meeting the President spoke in deprecatory terms of the model course of school drill now practised in our schools. |
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Talkative, self deprecatory, funny, intelligent, enthusiastic, a little poetic, he makes you smile even before he says anything. |
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These terms attached a deprecatory image to the person so identified. |
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The beauty of our homegrown varieties of eccentricity is in the triumph of a poised, moderate balance, coupled with a dose of thoroughly deprecatory satire. |
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No doubt, the Government's somewhat dismissive and deprecatory attitude towards those opposed to ratification succeeded in turning off a big section of the electorate. |
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Among the synonyms for dialect, the word idiom refers to any kind of dialect, or even language, whereas patois, a term from French, denotes rural or provincial dialects, often with a deprecatory connotation. |
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