'deprecatory' definitions:
Definition of 'deprecatory'
From: WordNet
adjective
Tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
Synonyms of 'deprecatory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- back-biting,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- diffident,
- disparaging,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- libelous,
- minimizing,
- objurgatory,
- pejorative,
- priggish,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- scandalous,
- scoffing,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- self-deprecating,
- self-depreciating,
- self-depreciative,
- self-distrustful,
- self-doubting,
- self-effacing,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- vilifying,
- vituperative