How To Use Deprecation In A Sentence
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Expect witty self-deprecation galore.
The Sun
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His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation.
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He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters.
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His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation.
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The self-deprecation does not disguise an engaging personality.
Times, Sunday Times
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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'
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The huge work pressure the tutorial system creates, can lead students into a downward spiral of self-deprecation and loss of confidence.
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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.
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England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation.
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We defuse situations and transmit subtle messages through irony, humour and self-deprecation.
Times, Sunday Times
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This sort of deprecation needs to stop if we ever want to feel proud of who we are.
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Their efforts deserve praise rather than deprecation.
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Happily for her readers, Knuth isn't afraid to laugh, sharing her God stories in breezy, eloquent prose with ample self-deprecation and great humor.
Cathleen Falsani: Thrift Store Saints: Tales of a Second-Hand Savior
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Self-deprecation is a recurring feature as Stevenson talks.
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And before this anticlimax can become a moment of appealing self-deprecation, Mr. Jennings notes that he outperformed all other first-time contestants.
Lost in a Good Atlas
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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.
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In these light and funny pages, grownup Ann looks back with unmerciful self-deprecation on herself as she was in the early 1960s, and the result is a book that children ages 8-14 can enjoy as a kind of genial historical artifact and that their parents can read with affectionate winces at the quirks and obsessions of long-ago childhood.
The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past
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Thoughts of deprecation ran rapid, like beasts, through the fog of her mind.
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To the application of the parable is added here, which we had not before, their deprecation of the doom included in it (v. 16): When they heart it, they said, God forbid, Me genoito -- Let not this be done, so it should be read.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Her act is still female biased but her appeal crosses the genders and her self-deprecation is acid sharp as ever.
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Such self-deprecation is also expressed in changing views about thievery in Niamey, a subject that arouses particularly intense emotions even though its incidence is actually quite rare.
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Sarah's face creased into an expression of motherly frustration, a look that said: Oh, you damn Brits, always with the self-deprecation.
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He served up a wicked sense of humour with a soupçon of self-deprecation as he regaled the crowd with assorted tales.
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She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier.
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In a man worth tens of billions of dollars, self-deprecation is a boast.
American Icons
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I say that I can picture to myself easily the sad earnestness with which you now point the thick thumb of your editorial refinement in deprecation of my choicer "rowdyism"?
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
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Self-deprecation is fine, but your work is your art.
A Long-Winded and Somewhat Reluctant Do & Don't List for Newbies Wanting to Reach Out to Authors
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With his reluctant audience unable to muster up the required level of self-deprecation to laugh at the joke, he just cackles away to himself regardless.
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The best way to avoid deprecation is to drive fewer miles, says Ibara.
Cars That Lose Their Value Fastest
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For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
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The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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His stock-in-trade of arch self-deprecation doesn't cut any slack up here.
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The self-deprecation does not disguise an engaging personality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get a profile up online that's sexy, forward, funny and easy on the self-deprecation - one where there is clearly no room for just palling around.
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His comedic style is marked mostly by self-deprecation, dryness, and yelling.
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Blair writes unaffectedly and charts her personal growth with honest self-deprecation.
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He tap-dances around the line between speech and song with such dexterity that by the time he reaches his summation — See now what a condition I am in! — we don't even notice that the seeming self-deprecation is actually an assertion of intellectual authority.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Conclusion: Achievement goal orientation , uncertain personal control, self - deprecation are closely related to academic self - handicapping.
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-- OED self-deprecation, shabbiness and eccentricity - ochlophobic traits, to be sure
The Ochlophobist
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There is a lot of self-congratulation here (along with, to be fair, some mitigating self-deprecation).
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But a researcher said self-deprecation is a risky form of humor because it can draw attention to one's real faults, and it is "not for everyone".
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Along with modesty, that other quintessentially British characteristic, self-deprecation, is on the wane - it doesn't work in a culture of swank and bravado.
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Karlovic's commentary ranges from self-deprecation to self-defense to heckling of other tennis Tweeters to absurdism.
Words of Wisdom Provided by Dr. Ivo
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In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation.
Kristi York Wooten: A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)
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There is a rueful self-deprecation at play here, at odds with a quiet desperation.
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So what do we get this year, without the slightest hint of deprecation?
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a reluctation, a deprecation of death, in the approaches thereof; but he had his cordial too, _Yet not my will, but thine be done_.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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At one time, he studied Chekhov, and Keneally achieves that tone of self-deprecation and detachment and the same hard-edged observations and insights.
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The newly promoted person may also attempt to minimize the status difference through self-deprecation and a surfeit of leniency toward the new supervisees.
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But while this self-deprecation is all very well, one does need a chunk of self-confidence to create anything for public consumption, let alone so many different things.
May 2006
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You know, neither my wife nor I are into self-deprecation or make any lame attempts to be self-effacing.
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Despite the self-deprecation, both outfits do a fair imitation of rock stars, and while Fake Mistake is certainly shambolic, it's also a rewarding listen - assured, smart, and inventive.
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Creating a character is all about ‘problem solving’ and self-deprecation is the best defence against the temptations of pretentiousness.
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To deplore is to (1) feel or express grief for; (2) regret strongly; (3) consider unfortunate or desreving of deprecation.
Making a place in the church for a lamentation
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This cover, from 1962, predated the now traditional bubble covers, but remains a classic example of British self-deprecation.