I do not deprecate the existence of sects in the world. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"deprecate" in programming terminology -- bits of code. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from Computerworld] Reference
I, for one, neither deprecate nor resent the gift. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
We're all so very fond of them, (we deprecate the grease,). From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870] Reference
Don't deprecate it just because you had something to do with its genesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Excess of tea I have good reason to deprecate; I take it only once a day. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
Mr. Ticke, and Mr. Rattray hastened to deprecate her thanks for his escort. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
What I do deprecate is leaving her to be driven by poverty to marry for money. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
They recognise the secret and insidious influences of the Jesuit, and deprecate it. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
They deprecate any movement of this kind on account of the condition of affairs there. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Mary blushed with pleasure at this praise, but was about to deprecate it when Stefan signaled her away. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
And here is one of the real reasons why we deprecate men entering our calling, without both the culture of. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
I strongly deprecate legislation looking to the election of a Territorial legislature in that vast district. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Miller goes on to deprecate the state of the West End, particularly the celebrity-ish nature of first nights. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Miller: I'd rather be at Marks and Spencer than the theatre] Reference
The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
There are enough who can be spared; and they are generally those who deprecate and denounce an "Abolition war.". From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
We are told that they are harmless -- that they have no tendency to produce the horrid results which we deprecate. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel.] Reference
Still, I live a life so prominent and laborious that I might seem to be expecting the very thing that I deprecate. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Some Socialists will deprecate what may seem to them the unwise frankness of the paper on "The Nihilism of Socialism.". From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
But with all this I have not been provoked enough to express my resentment, or mean enough to deprecate that of others. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Surely, we all have cause to deprecate the remorseless flood of fictitious literature in which better books are drowned. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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