He was a fulfillment, not a setter aside of it, not a depreciator of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should Women Be Pastors? - June 14, 2000] Reference

A self-depreciator who says things like: I can't believe 20 (30, 50) people came to my booksigning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lampreys, Megamouths and Cane Toads: Overmarketing] Reference

Not that he is usually a depreciator of his former leader, of whose military genius and great achievements he ever speaks with respect amounting to veneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

Thirdly, two scraps from letters from Stevenson to Henley, to show that the latter was not always a depreciator of R.L. Stevenson's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

We stand on opposite sides of a battlefield - a lolicon against an upstanding citizen; a man who demands 'plot' against a style hound; a self-depreciator against a self-aggrandizer (hint: I'm the latter).    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

Now, the most determined depreciator of women will not venture to deny, that when we add the experience of recent times to that of ages past, women, and not a few merely, but many women, have proved themselves capable of everything, perhaps without.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subjection of Women] Reference

A sentence or two may be quoted from his comparison between French and English literature, because they show that he was not, as he is sometimes accused of being, an unfair depreciator of the great writers of England and a blind admirer of those of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Adam Smith]

1 Dc Pauw, the great depreciator of everything Ægyptian, has, on the authority of a passage in Aelian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of Cleopatra the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gryll Grange] Reference

“As generally under - stood,” Aristotle said in the Ethics, “the boaster is a man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out, while conversely the self-depreciator dis - claims or disparages good qualities that he does possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRONY] Reference

He poses, to be sure, as a depreciator of woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern American Prose Selections] Reference