His amused, half-roguish, half-depreciatory grin was disarming.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Something in tone depreciatory of the man caused Deleah to say quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Bar was likewise always modest and self – depreciatory — in his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

This was the artist who was coupled with Verrio in Pope's depreciatory line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Ike has a way of giving a self-depreciatory chuckle at the end of every sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference

Campion could not hear his voice but guessed it was pleasant in accent and depreciatory in tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

But Tatenor caught his eye now, and flicked a depreciatory finger at the Privateer's scarlet hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

Most of the self-depreciatory writers, by their very abnegation of the title, exalt the supreme poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

No criticism is more common or more depreciatory than that "Such a one will not succeed, because he has surrounded himself with incompetent men.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

One of them -- Bates it was -- responding to a lady who was effusive about the strawberries, even took the modestly depreciatory attitude of the host.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

There was not a man present who did not express his admiration for her beauty and her grace; hardly a woman who did not instantly make some depreciatory remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

The phrase seems a little depreciatory, but as Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, according to his candid colleague, is "constitutionally an optimist" he will no doubt make the best of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917] Reference

Nor should you venture any depreciatory remarks upon men who have risen from the ranks, unless you are tolerably versed in the family-history of those to whom you are talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

My good friend, I am afraid that the course of my speculations is leading me to say something depreciatory of legislators; but if the word be to the purpose, there can be no harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

"It was depreciatory criticism, of course?" said Arthur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference

I have used the word duplicity in no depreciatory sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference

Rock spread out his fat hands with a depreciatory gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Diablo] Reference

"A precious small one, though," said Roberts in a depreciatory tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference

They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

It is uncertain, however, whether kâkapeya is meant as a laudatory or as a depreciatory term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays] Reference

No more depreciatory words could be chosen, or put into the mouth of an honest country gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pickwickian Studies] Reference

Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

The only criticism I have to offer -- in the ordinary depreciatory sense of the word -- is that pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

I remember how indignant I felt, as a boy, at reading some depreciatory criticism of the Waverley Novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

Different Danish authors had recently written about the town, and in as depreciatory a strain as they could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference

Romola did not make this self-depreciatory statement in a tone of anxious humility, but with a proud gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

To the repetition he added with manifest sincerity, though also with a self-depreciatory movement of the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

Almost before Miss Browning had ended her severe and depreciatory remarks, he had asked his friend Miss Hornblower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

These grown-up boys of ours are shy and self-depreciatory in love, and they run like deer when they think they are not wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'] Reference

"She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen -- present company always excepted," he concluded, with a depreciatory laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference

He examined the collection, nevertheless, with a depreciatory countenance, and offered ten francs for three of the finest specimens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference

In private talk with Martin Warricombe, Mr. Lilywhite did not hesitate to call him 'a mountebank ', and to add other depreciatory remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

They had before called Him a Galilean; that appellative was but mildly depreciatory, and moreover was a truthful designation according to their knowledge; but the epithet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference