deprecating

How To Use deprecating In A Sentence

• I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan. Archive 2006-04-01
• Then it began to sweep slowly over her in the deprecating manner that Jessamy remembered so clearly from four years ago.
• This mixes feminism with funny, cool with competent, self-deprecating with powerbroker. The Sun
• It is ironic how the American Art World puts everything outside itself in deprecating categories, especially Ethnic Art, yet what could be more ethnic than it? July 2008
• Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
• Both stories are agreeably self-deprecating and rimed with snark.
• Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else. February 2004
• She is anxious me – the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me. Like To Get To Know You Well | Her Bad Mother
• managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
• Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.