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How to use deprecatory in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word deprecatory? Here are some examples.

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Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile. But no smile answered him from her set face.
He met each interviewer on deck with a deprecatory smile, and the hat pushed back on his head.
These criticisms of his theological proposal should not in any way be interpreted as deprecatory of the project in hand.
Other ranking officers have also made deprecatory and abusive comments about the defence minister at international meetings.
The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision.
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.
The book is surely demeaning, and for the Germans the main character conjures up a familiar and deprecatory stereotype.
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.
It was while defending himself that he was alleged to have made deprecatory remarks about the leader.
The end of the eulogy abandons the apparently deprecatory mythological images.
During the meeting the President spoke in deprecatory terms of the model course of school drill now practised in our schools.
Talkative, self deprecatory, funny, intelligent, enthusiastic, a little poetic, he makes you smile even before he says anything.
These terms attached a deprecatory image to the person so identified.
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.
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.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Israelite did not answer, nor seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance.
Austin waved them away with a deprecatory gesture and a smile.
When the answer came, it was strangely deprecatory, uncertain, unassured.
The gentlemanly man, with feeble and deprecatory gestures, and in the manner of a hypnotised person, produced an excellent large tarpaulin.
The clerk waved a deprecatory hand in Captain Cy's direction.
Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.
He paused, and laughed in a deprecatory fashion before he went on again.
He made a deprecatory gesture, sat down, and took up a paper.
Latisan was deprecatory, if his manners were revealing his feelings.
The girl was deprecatory at one moment, appealing to Robert.
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