Synonyms for depreciatory
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-pree-shee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -pree-shuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpri ʃi əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, -ˈpri ʃə- |
Top 10 synonyms for depreciatory
Définition of depreciatory
- adj disparaging
- And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- “A precious small one, though,” said Roberts in a depreciatory tone.
- Extract from : « Hunting the Skipper » by George Manville Fenn
- All of its despatches from the West, Churchill's as well as others, were depreciatory.
- Extract from : « The Candidate » by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- It was not only the soldiers who took this depreciatory view of France.
- Extract from : « The Marne » by Edith Wharton
- Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
- Extract from : « The Soul of the Far East » by Percival Lowell
- You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Appomattox » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence—surely not.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) » by Frederic G. Kenyon
- His depreciatory view was in part, too, I believe, an echo from his favourite Vidocq.
- Extract from : « Isopel Berners » by George Borrow
- Surely his friends have cherished the story out of no petty love of depreciatory detail?
- Extract from : « Certain Personal Matters » by H. G. Wells
- There was some superior and depreciatory laughter, and then Mona was required to repeat what she knew.
- Extract from : « She's All the World to Me » by Hall Caine
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