| The gray man turned his opened palm outwards with a deprecative motion which was not English at all. |
| I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex. |
| He has a proposition for James, which he puts to him in deprecative terms typical of their mutual origins. |
| They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads. |
| The common academic view of popular music is at best deprecative. |
| It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing. |
