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deprecatoryadjective intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or valuehe typically followed up any mention of his accomplishments with some deprecatory comments about his perceived failures belittling, contemptuous, decrying, degrading, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disdainful, disparaging, pejorative, scornful, slighting, uncomplimentary aspersing, calumnious, defamatory, insulting, libelous(or libellous), maligning, slandering, slanderous, vilifyingabusive, opprobrious, scurrilouscatty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, unkind, virulentcritical, denunciative, denunciatoryacrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentfulacrid, caustic, scathing, venomous commendatory, complimentary, laudative, laudatory admiring, adulatory, applauding, approving, friendly, positiveappreciative, respectfulkind, kindhearted, kindly, sympathetic, unmalicious, warm, warmhearted in 1586 |