depreciatory

How To Use depreciatory In A Sentence

• Bar was likewise always modest and self – depreciatory — in his way. Little Dorrit
• Not only will it add 'depreciatory' pressures on the TTD, but another implication of such action by the CBTT will be the rapid erosion of the country's stock of external buffers - ie, its foreign currency reserves. TrinidadExpress Today's News
• Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy, undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
• So if our actions and qualities compel the highest respect from other people, and they have no option but to give this respect, — as soon as anyone, no matter how wicked or foolish he may be, utters something depreciatory of us, our honor is offended, nay, gone for ever, unless we can manage to restore it. The Wisdom of Life
• There have been many efforts to cleanse the language of depreciatory terms, particularly in the western countries conscious of the multicultural fabric of their societies.
• depreciatory effects on prices
• There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well – favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone. Little Dorrit
• Their sense of humour is mischievous, depreciatory and anti-authoritarian.
• Pumblechook himself, self – constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job. Great Expectations
• their views of life were reductive and depreciatory