[
UK
/dˌɛpɹɪkˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
How To Use deprecation In A Sentence
- Expect witty self-deprecation galore. The Sun
- His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation.
- He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters.
- His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation.
- The self-deprecation does not disguise an engaging personality. Times, Sunday Times
- Ware, who looks like Frasier Crane, only with an even bigger "brainiac" forehead, has a devastating line in self-deprecation. Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed'
- The huge work pressure the tutorial system creates, can lead students into a downward spiral of self-deprecation and loss of confidence.
- His tone is tauntingly acidic, his expression world-weary but capable of mischievous reigniting; his hands keep taking off on a little dance of impatience and deprecation.
- England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation.
- We defuse situations and transmit subtle messages through irony, humour and self-deprecation. Times, Sunday Times
