Depreciatory [adjective]

But recent discoveries have brought to light many important examples which completely disprove his depreciatory estimate.

But against any such depreciatory remarks we have to set Chopin's high opinion of Zywny's teaching capability.

We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.

Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.

And depreciatory remarks are slightingly introduced concerning the work at other agencies.

It was not only the soldiers who took this depreciatory view of France.

Romola did not make this self-depreciatory statement in a tone of anxious humility, but with a proud gravity.

Bad does not acquire its unqualified depreciatory meaning till much later.

Different Danish authors had recently written about the town, and in as depreciatory a strain as they could.

These grown-up boys of ours are shy and self-depreciatory in love, and they run like deer when they think they are not wanted.