Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.] Reference

Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

Overly contemplative, fairly self-deprecative, and slightly worrisome and unsettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Where I Wish I Hadn't Woken Up] Reference

"You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.] Reference

Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

His tone was so deprecative that Courtney was sharply awakened by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress] Reference

I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

Each pilot has a "call sign," a deprecative nickname given to the person by his or her peers, the group said.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheDenverChannel.com - Local News] Reference

But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

Elsewhere, felt that the editors 'characterization of extant JS sermon records as "at best like class notes" was unduly deprecative.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog] Reference

Divine institution the deprecative form must not be excluded, and that the Council of Trent in its decree did not intend to make final pronouncement in the premises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The formula for absolution is not deprecative, as it is in other Eastern Rites, but indicative, as in the Latin, and Maronite priests can validly absolve Catholics of all rites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

“Here is the bathroom ... if you don't mind my saying it, when you throw the toilet seat up, let the water run from the tap over the wash basin ... my mother and sisters!” he trailed off in inaudible, deprecative urge of the proprieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life]

The clergyman and just then the clerk came down, passed close by, looked at him, went and opened a pew door, and returned to approach him again with a deprecative cough, as if he were about to speak, but he passed on again, and went back into the vestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness to the Deed] Reference

Anthony's blanket and spoke a few terse words -- Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room, made the bed and, after asking with some hostility if there was anything else, withdrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

Anthony’s blanket and spoke a few terse words — Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room, made the bed and, after asking with some hostility if there was anything else, withdrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

If that gentleman had offered to the friends who generally dropped in on him on Wednesday afternoon the paper bag of cigars sold at five cents each when bought singly, but half a dozen for a quarter of a dollar, they would have been quite as thankfully received; but it better pleased his deprecative soul to put them in an empty cigar-box, and thus throw around them the halo of the presumption that ninety-four of their imported companions had been smoked.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chosen Few Short Stories] Reference

My mother and sisters! "he trailed off in inaudible, deprecative urge of the proprieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference