Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deprecatory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deprecatory \Dep"re*ca*to*ry\, a. [L. deprecatorius.]
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by
prayer; apologetic.
Humble and deprecatory letters. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deprecatory
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}]
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