(1) The book is surely demeaning, and for the Germans the main character conjures up a familiar and deprecatory stereotype.(2) u2018Hey, listenu2019, I said, with a wry self - deprecatory shake of the head, u2018You don't want to hear a superannuated sociologist propounding half - baked theories.(3) These terms attached a deprecatory image to the person so identified.(4) If someone angers me, I can cite my antagonist's deprecatory tone; if someone makes me jealous, I can point to his poaching on my emotional property.(5) So the concept of the tourist as a nuisance and a parasite upon his host country did not take long to establish and the word was almost from the beginning used in a deprecatory sense.(6) He is a tremendous comic when he wants to be, as well as arrogant and deprecatory , with humor, when he feels that it is appropriate.(7) The u2018fastest girl in townu2019 label accentuates and casts a deprecatory shadow onto her racial otherness, and she eventually leaves Ruby.(8) He met each interviewer on deck with a deprecatory smile, and the hat pushed back on his head.(9) He compu00e8red for the corporation and the bands submitted to interviews with him and made the right deprecatory noises.(10) The end of the eulogy abandons the apparently deprecatory mythological images.(11) The beauty of our homegrown varieties of eccentricity is in the triumph of a poised, moderate balance, coupled with a dose of thoroughly deprecatory satire.(12) These criticisms of his theological proposal should not in any way be interpreted as deprecatory of the project in hand.(13) Other ranking officers have also made deprecatory and abusive comments about the defence minister at international meetings.(14) In my more than two years of writing on the web, I have had enough deprecatory e-mails from readers who do not share my high opinion of the man.(15) Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile. But no smile answered him from her set face.(16) The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision.
