How To Use depreciator In A Sentence
- Ike has a way of giving a self-depreciatory chuckle at the end of every sentence. Outfoxed Diary Entry
- A sentence or two may be quoted from his comparison between French and English literature, because they show that he was not, as he is sometimes accused of being, an unfair depreciator of the great writers of England and a blind admirer of those of France. Life of Adam Smith
- My good friend, I am afraid that the course of my speculations is leading me to say something depreciatory of legislators; but if the word be to the purpose, there can be no harm. Laws
- I sent him, therefore, the book, carefully sealed up, with an intimation that I requested the favour of his opinion upon the contents, of which I affected to talk in the depreciatory style, which calls for point-blank contradiction, if your correspondent possess a grain of civility. The Surgeon's Daughter
- It is common now for these views to be dismissed with de haut en bas gestures of depreciatory scorn.
- A self-depreciator who says things like: I can't believe 20 (30, 50) people came to my booksigning. Lampreys, Megamouths and Cane Toads: Overmarketing
- To the repetition he added with manifest sincerity, though also with a self-depreciatory movement of the head: Through Russia
- To reflect these depreciatory factors it was appropriate to discount the valuation of the claimants' shareholdings after implementation of the transaction by 80% to 90%.
- We stand on opposite sides of a battlefield - a lolicon against an upstanding citizen; a man who demands 'plot' against a style hound; a self-depreciator against a self-aggrandizer (hint: I'm the latter). Anime Nano!
- The depreciatory or vilificatory fashionable novel delights in exposing the peccadilloes, or imagined peccadilloes, (for it is all the same,) of young or old people of fashion: a gourmand peer, a titled demirep, a "desperate dandy," a black-leg, and a few such other respectable characters, are dialogued through the customary number of chapters, and conducted to the usual catastrophe: virtue is triumphant, vice abashed, towards the latter end of the last volume; and some low-born hero and heroine, introduced to exhibit, by contrast, the vices of the aristocracy, suddenly, and without any effort of their own, acquire large fortunes, perhaps titles, which it would have been just as easy to have given them at first—go to church in an orthodox manner, and set up a virtuous aristocracy of their own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
