depreciatory
depreciative

A depreciatory saying of a speaker.

Ned Beaumont made a depreciatory mouth.

Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).

It has also been argued that the inflow of such foreign-based capital has helped keep the Somali shilling afloat and offset depreciatory and inflationary pressures.

The value-shifting and depreciatory transactions provisions in ss32 and 176 TCGA 1992 should be considered, and for these purposes it is necessary to distinguish two possible scenarios.

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.

He concludes that the story of Anne of Brittany has been enriched by hagiographical or depreciatory elements, not recounted in the writings contemporary to the duchess, hard to prove or invented.

My dear Laurence, . . . There is a notice of Gods and their Makers in last week's Athenaeum: I don't know if it is depreciatory enough to suit your taste.

It has to do with 'the people'(but who are they?), though often this has the sense of the vulgus, the common people, and to describe something as 'popular' may then have the (depreciatory) implication that it is inferior or designed to suit low tastes.

But the man, and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "What nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

The basis of the philosophical ideas of Giuliano Kremmerz is " sacred materialism ", which should not be confused with the depreciatory meaning given to the word "materialism" as much by economic doctrines as by a particular vision of the philosophy of science.

Milder sentences of two weeks' solitary confinement and twenty-five lashings were given "anyone making depreciatory remarks in a letter or other documents about National Socialist leaders, the State and Government ... [or] glorifying Marxist or Liberal leaders of the old democratic parties."

In the short time remaining to him, Chamberlain was angered by the "short, cold & for the most part depreciatory" press comments on his retirement, according to him written "without the slightest sign of sympathy for the man or even any comprehension that there may be a human tragedy in the background".

In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.

Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements cannot be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company (s 176 TCGA), they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor's chargeable gain without the vendor's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value.

In some cases the echo word may express a depreciative meaning as well.

The selected lyrics were chosen as being depreciative to women to show misogyny.

She is known for her ribald, depreciative style.

He made a depreciative little shrug.

Trekkie is "frequently depreciative", thus, "not an acceptable term to serious fans", who prefer Trekker.

In fact, he would use the term España in a depreciative way, an example of the "past" and what "should be avoided".

They spoke in depreciative phrases of the present state of affairs in the Party, and about the methods of the leadership.

Contemptives are formed in a similar fashion as diminutives and are used to express negative or depreciative attitude the speaker may have of the noun.

Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords.

A brief web search of the term "los guiris" is sufficient to see its widespread use, although a depreciative term, in many Spanish sites and even local TV and Radio.

It is also widely used as a depreciative term by inhabitants of the Balearic islands, Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca, as well as the Costa del Sol, for visitors usually from northern European countries.

And Lord Berners, being the quintessential esthete, follows another standard pattern as well, that of the artistic child born into a philistine aristocracy in which blood sports were thought to be man's highest calling and "the word 'imagination' was always used in a depreciative sense."

At the 1901 Pan-American Exposition and at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, where Little Egypt performed bellydance, and where the photographers Charles Dudley Arnold and Harlow Higginbotham took depreciative photos, presenting indigenous people as catalogue of "types," along with sarcastic legends.