In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The Chiemgauer, named after a region in Bavaria, is a depreciative currency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiscal Localism On Rise In Germany] Reference

He may be a courtier; his most depreciative critic never denies he is a fighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

And proud — with that inner self-depreciative pride which never let up on a man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowering Wilderness] Reference

That doesn't mean being depreciative of the political reality or insulting our politicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

This was characteristic of him -- ever depreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference

They spoke in depreciative phrases of the present state of affairs in the Party, and about the methods of the leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

BUT it's a lot more used to as a depreciative, usually comic ... sort of like saying the "Poor slob" or the "sick puppy".    From Wordnik.com.  [Translation, por favor, en Ingles] Reference

Why is is seemingly necessary to describe an opposition diehard as an 'escualido' (squalid) or some equally depreciative word for a pro-government supporter.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's not unusual to hear US citizens address the often inebriated lunatic in their White House as 'Commander-in-Chief'] Reference

Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference

She had been too depreciative of herself, too innocent of the workings of passion, to have felt anything but irritation and annoyance at the signs in him of a suffering she could not believe in or understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

More, though, what pulled me was that it would be a dialogue, something geared toward open-endedness, collaboration, and understanding – as opposed to the argumentative, close-minded, depreciative debates I am accustomed to (Berman handout).    From Wordnik.com.  [Prompt the first. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference

The most difficult to evaluate is depreciative cost of equipment over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CattleNetwork] Reference

That's tough considering I'm self-depreciative and don't really like anything I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports] Reference

The best they could do was to aver that he had written "depreciative words" against the.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference

We all know that Abbas is accustomed to talking about the ROR in dismissive and depreciative terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

On the other hand, those who are of a self-depreciative nature should get up with the worm and bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference

But certainly, in the future we are going to see a lot of depreciative assets that we can analyze if it fits to our strategy or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference

Quirk is a presenter who always makes a crowd crow with laughter and share in his often self-depreciative revelations about the enjoyment of mass-marketed music.    From Wordnik.com.  [KEXP 90.3 Blog] Reference

Precious Harp, Covet Spring; and the parent's way of speaking of his little girl, when not wishing to be self-depreciative, is to call her his "Thousand ounces of gold.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Boy and Girl] Reference

I merely wish to point out a perfectly legitimate and even important signification of the terms high and low, quite apart from their popular employment as laudatory or depreciative epithets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Goodness] Reference

She was indignant at what she considered to be Mrs. Gibson's obtuseness to so much goodness and worth; and when she called Roger 'a country lout ', or any other depreciative epithet, Molly would pinch herself in order to keep silent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

I have always found all our celebrities so exceedingly pleased to be given a little additional notoriety! ... and I should have thought a POET, "this with much depreciative emphasis --" would have been particularly glad of the chance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

He paused at this point, and looked round with solemn dignity; and the braves, unaccustomed to such self-depreciative modes of address, gazed at him with equal solemnity, not unmingled with surprise, though the latter feeling was carefully concealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference

In this way, each becomes error, and the truths contained in empiricism, in practicism, in intellectualism, in agnostic and in mystical Aesthetic, become, respectively, falsity, and these tendencies of speculation are indicated with names of a definitely depreciative colouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

At the commencement of this harangue she met her brother-in-law's rather depreciative scrutiny with her bold little stare -- in his present mood Ormiston found her vivacity tedious, though he was usually willing enough to laugh at her extravagancies -- then she whipped Julius in with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

A master of depreciative pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Austin, Texas, I pay my traditional visit to the 10 Commandment monument.] Reference

I am at a loss to understand you, "replied Mr. Arnold, who resented any such allusion, being subversive of the honour of his house, almost as much as if it had been depreciative of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Elginbrod] Reference

Tuga Suave "(Soft Portuguese), the exhibition that introduced his work to a Lisbon audience last year, comprised several manipulated pictorial reproductions of packs of Português Suave cigarettes, among other pieces-no doubt a depreciative allusion to the Portuguese collective unconscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

He lifted a depreciative shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference

I asked, with a depreciative smirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference