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  • Marilla opened her lips to say she knew not what of apology or deprecation.   (source)
    deprecation = disapproval
  • Stage Manager now looks over the audience, puffs his pipe, consults watch, deprecates late-comers, etc.   (source)
    deprecates = expresses disapproval of
  • Fielding deprecated confidences, but Sir Gilbert insisted on imparting them;   (source)
    deprecated = disapproved of
  • General hubbub, mostly sympathetic to the flower girl, but deprecating her excessive sensibility.   (source)
    deprecating = belittling or disapproving  OR  belittling (minimizing or diminishing the value of) oneself
  • Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.   (source)
    deprecated = disapproved of
  • She wrote with an endearing, intelligent voice, and her entries were filled with self-deprecating humor and witty, sardonic asides.†   (source)
  • He smiled, to show self-deprecation.†   (source)
  • The Count offered a self-deprecating smile.†   (source)
  • Alex's chin came up a notch, as if she was ready for Lacy to make a deprecating comment about her affiliation with the bad guys.†   (source)
  • That's when the self-deprecating voice in my head kicked in.†   (source)
  • He was absent-minded and kind; he was neglectful and muddle-headed and self-deprecating and gentle; often he didn't hear the first time you spoke to him, or even the second time; he lost his glasses, mislaid his wallet, his keys, his dry-cleaning tickets, and was always calling me downstairs to get on my hands and knees with him to help him search for some minuscule fitting or piece of hardware he'd dropped on the floor.†   (source)
  • He smiled his usual smile, half deprecating, half shy and embarrassed, but I felt I had given him pleasure with what, in the present situation, was my naive wish to help him.†   (source)
  • Collette had told her it was a stupid habit, this self-deprecating clowning around with which Pari tried to mask her nervousness around men she was attracted to.†   (source)
  • He shrugged deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • He was watching her and she softened and gave him a self-deprecating smile.†   (source)
  • Most of the twenty-two-year-old's answers were a barrage of self-deprecation without an ounce of hope.†   (source)
  • "Oh," she said, deprecatingly, "I'm just going down the block to see Mrs. Braithwaite.†   (source)
  • Black kids from his school and neighborhood might have hung together endlessly but rarely showed the sort of self-deprecating, carefree vulnerability that's common here.†   (source)
  • "But I—" began Stoddard deprecatingly, when Johnnie reddened and broke in hastily.†   (source)
  • Finally, after yet another round of thanks on their part and a self-deprecating "It was nothing," he managed to escape outdoors.†   (source)
  • Total strangers saw fit to deprecate him, with the result that he was stricken early with a guilty fear of people and an obsequious impulse to apologize to society for the fact that he was not Henry Fonda.†   (source)
  • And she was fond of saying, in deprecating some item, "I couldn't write a line with that in the house."†   (source)
  • But then he recovered himself, and with appealing self-deprecation evoked a favorite image from Aesop: " 'What dust we raise,' said the fly upon the chariot wheel.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger laughed deprecatingly, and the insensate walls made the sound into a loon-like wheeze.†   (source)
  • Now, these men, Spaniards of Cuba, though reputed to be gentlemen, are trying to deprecate the value of their holdings.†   (source)
  • In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with clichés and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating.†   (source)
  • With some pain, in the way of self-deprecating beginners who are facing long apprenticeships, Nicolo said, "I make propellers."†   (source)
  • His father is self-deprecating and funny.†   (source)
  • If there was a phrase that summed up Senior Foreign Service Officer Catherine Staples, it was tough-but-fair...also, she was frequently very amusing in a self-deprecating way.†   (source)
  • Lee smiled, waved a deprecating hand.†   (source)
  • He is somewhat shy and talks quietly, but when you listen closely, you realize he's constantly making wry, self-deprecating observations.†   (source)
  • "Not at all, Lisa," Tyler said, smiling toothily and shaking his head in deprecation.†   (source)
  • He was admired for his humility, hisself-deprecating humor, and a certain quality of gentle detachment rarely prized in the barracks.†   (source)
  • He smiled deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • She smiled, deprecating.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Deprecating) I am listened to by those who have.†   (source)
  • He smiled deprecatingly, yet with obvious satisfaction.†   (source)
  • "Not as much as she did the others," said Leota deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • Yet the lifetime which was so bitterly deprecated by its own principal has never been paralleled in American history.†   (source)
  • Chaotic response of anger, chagrin, fear of lost reputation, self-deprecation, shame— "Sign off, Gus.†   (source)
  • With contrite hearts, to deprecate their ire.   (source)
    deprecate = diminish
  • Poirot shook his head, as though deprecating the other's jesting tone   (source)
    deprecating = disapproving of
  • Marilla and Matthew looked at each other deprecatingly across the stove.   (source)
    deprecatingly = expressing disapproval
  • "O no, sir!" cried the girl, following him. "Really, sir, I wouldn't take it."
    "Christmas-time! Christmas-time!" said Gabriel, almost trotting to the stairs and waving his hand to her in deprecation.   (source)
    deprecation = a manner indicating that it was of little importance or value
  • "What that man say," said Big C. My be-kind-to-mongrel addresses usually degenerated into these backbiting arguments with Cindy Lou making deprecating remarks about the much-maligned Beau.†   (source)
  • Her writing was still as funny and self-deprecating as ever.†   (source)
  • "Oh dear," I said, with a weak, deprecating little smile at Richard.†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm only a theoretical socialist," he deprecated.†   (source)
  • Johnnie deprecated, as she made haste to dress herself.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry this one's broken," Johnnie deprecated.†   (source)
  • Johnnie returned, with a deprecating smile.†   (source)
  • Yes, I am," in answer to Johnnie's deprecating look.†   (source)
  • He deprecated raving simply as raving, as a force of Nature and so beneath notice or mention.†   (source)
  • It's such a strain on the voice," Cordelia says with a deprecating smile, as if she is projecting and straining her voice all in the line of work.†   (source)
  • All right ...forget the hat, but I'm keeping the jacket on," Cedric says with a self-deprecating chuckle before sliding around to help James with calculus.†   (source)
  • If there is anything that seems not in keeping, it is the tone of Adams's self-deprecation, which is more that of the old man he became than the Adams of 1776, who was anything but inadequate as a writer and who was by no means as unpopular as he later said.†   (source)
  • For full effect Adam told the self-deprecating story, detail by detail, as though it had happened to him.†   (source)
  • They've got a party," she deprecated.†   (source)
  • "I hate to werry ye, Johnnie," said the other's deprecating voice; "but looks like I've jest got obliged to have a little help this evenin'.†   (source)
  • "Well, I should be a little puzzled to put it into words," Miss Sessions answered him with a deprecating smile; "and yet it's there—the feeling that John Consadine is—I hate to say it—ungrateful."†   (source)
  • Well, I suppose you would call me (He suddenly turns) "The King's Ear" ....(A deprecating shrug) It's a useful organ, the ear.†   (source)
  • As he turned his head a little to one side and negligently stirred the dirt with his yellow finger, she saw, with a sort of helpless suspicion and hunger, a soft, rather deprecating smile on his face; he was lost in some impossible dream of his own while he was transplanting the little shoots.†   (source)
  • They instinctively liked all people but had been conditioned to dislike and deprecate blacks.†   (source)
  • It's pretty handy," he added deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • That came out of the very helplessness of not being able to speak-to thank or to deprecate.†   (source)
  • "I would 'a' told you, Johnnie," said the poor woman deprecatingly, "but I never knowed it myself till late last night, and I hadn't the heart to name it at breakfast.†   (source)
  • "Like poor people who have learned to fly at last," he said, walking, dragging, the fine deprecation in his voice, "all the people in The Landing, all kinds and conditions of people, are gliding off and upward to darkness.†   (source)
  • Everybody said, in something like deprecation, that she was only imitating her older sister, who used to go out to that same garden and curse in that same way, years ago, but in a remarkably loud, commanding voice that could be heard in the post office.†   (source)
  • Always now like something he had put off, the thought of her was like a wave that hit him when he was tired, rising impossibly out of stagnancy and deprecation while he sat in the park, towering over his head, pounding, falling, going back and leaving nothing behind it.†   (source)
  • But of this there was no absolute certainty; therefore any hasty action was to be deprecated.†   (source)
  • "You could regard her as that, if you wished," replied Chang with deprecating blandness.†   (source)
  • He could feel the man's hand on his foot, a light and deprecating touch.†   (source)
  • I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.†   (source)
  • "I am not deprecating your individual talent, Joseph," the Bishop continued, "but, when one thinks of it, a soup like this is not the work of one man.†   (source)
  • But Bernard would not be cheered; without answering, without even looking at Helmholtz, he went and sat down on the most uncomfortable chair in the room, carefully chosen in the obscure hope of somehow deprecating the wrath of the higher powers.†   (source)
  • But this and his pleasure in it, his glory in the phrases he made, in the ardour of youth, in his wife's beauty, in the tributes that reached him from Swansea, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Kidderminster, Oxford, Cambridge—all had to be deprecated and concealed under the phrase "talking nonsense," because, in effect, he had not done the thing he might have done.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Eliza, "I remember my father—it was long before you were born, boy," she said to Eugene, "for I hadn't laid eyes on your papa—as the feller says, you were nothing but a dish-rag hanging out in heaven—I'd have laughed at any one who suggested marriage then—Well, I tell you what [she shook her head with a sad pursed deprecating mouth], we were mighty poor at the time, I can tell you.†   (source)
  • With a little, deprecating laugh, his mother stood before the candles, and bowing her head before them, murmured through the hands she spread before her face the ancient prayer for the Sabbath ....The hushed hour, the hour of tawny beatitude ...~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ X HIS mother rose, lit the gas lamp.†   (source)
  • Poirot waved a deprecating hand.†   (source)
  • But his creed, the attitude, that is to say, adopted by him in his public relations, made him hide the need he had for praise; thus to Fred Maitland and to Herbert Fisher he appeared entirely self deprecating, modest, and ridiculously humble in his opinion of himself.†   (source)
  • But M. Othon, who had grown thinner, raised a limp, deprecating hand; weighing his words, he said that everyone could make mistakes.†   (source)
  • The valet's tone was deprecating.†   (source)
  • As she lurched (for she rolled like a ship at sea) and leered (for her eyes fell on nothing directly, but with a sidelong glance that deprecated the scorn and anger of the world—she was witless, she knew it), as she clutched the banisters and hauled herself upstairs and rolled from room to room, she sang.†   (source)
  • He deprecated polygamy, but he saw no reason to inveigh against the prevalent fondness for the tangatse berry, to which were ascribed medicinal properties, but which was chiefly popular because its effects were those of a mild narcotic.†   (source)
  • But the other made a deprecating gesture.†   (source)
  • The gambler spoke to Pearce, made what appeared deprecating gestures, as if to explain.†   (source)
  • The cook drew himself up in a smugly humble fashion, a deprecating smirk on his face.†   (source)
  • She laid a deprecating hand on her friend's.†   (source)
  • Lily rose from her seat with a deprecating laugh.†   (source)
  • "Why should we put an end to all that's sweet and lovely!" she deprecated.†   (source)
  • "Don't 'ee mind I," he said with a deprecating wave of the hand; "bide here as long as ye will.†   (source)
  • "Well, I didn't say she wasn't," he said, deprecating.†   (source)
  • LIZA [strongly deprecating this view of her] Ah—ah—ah—ow—ow— oo!†   (source)
  • Finally he urged unity, and deprecated especially religious and denominational bickering.†   (source)
  • With a deprecating smile, the host gently raised and gently lowered his shoulders.†   (source)
  • "Why, there's a glove on it!" he said in a deprecating way.†   (source)
  • "Well, ye see," began the stranger, in a deprecating tone, "we'd like t' git in f'r the night.†   (source)
  • He lifted his eyes, when he saw his master, with a half-deprecating, apologetic air.†   (source)
  • She deprecated the connexion in every light.†   (source)
  • He deprecated her mistaken but well-meaning zeal.†   (source)
  • "Eh, but a damaged thing," said Bob, in a tone of deprecating disgust.†   (source)
  • "But I'm very sorry!" he said, in deprecating tones.†   (source)
  • "O, Mas'r!" said Tom, holding up his hands, with a deprecating gesture.†   (source)
  • "'Twas a cannibal deed!" deprecated her listeners.†   (source)
  • Philip laughed savagely as he thought of her gentility and the refinement with which she ate her food; she could not bear a coarse word, so far as her limited vocabulary reached she had a passion for euphemisms, and she scented indecency everywhere; she never spoke of trousers but referred to them as nether garments; she thought it slightly indelicate to blow her nose and did it in a deprecating way.†   (source)
  • Her mother put on a deprecating look.†   (source)
  • "Oh, ELLEN—" she murmured, much in the same accusing and yet deprecating tone in which her parents might have said: "Oh, THE BLENKERS—."†   (source)
  • There was a roomful of old books at Bly—last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.†   (source)
  • The Nelsons looked deprecating.†   (source)
  • Godbole, who had never been known to tell anyone anything, smiled again, and said in deprecating tones: "Never be angry with me.†   (source)
  • It was deeply distasteful to him to do anything melodramatic and conspicuous, anything Mr. van der Luyden would have deprecated and the club box condemned as bad form.†   (source)
  • She felt humiliated again, for she deprecated labels, and she felt too that there should have been another scene between her lover and herself at this point, something dramatic and lengthy.†   (source)
  • It was very perplexing to her lover that she should be piqued at his honest acquiescence in his rival, if Jude's feelings of love were deprecated by her.†   (source)
  • "To take me out of my friends' way, you mean?" she said quietly; and Mrs. Fisher responded with a deprecating kiss: "To keep you out of their sight till they realize how much they miss you."†   (source)
  • He wished to obtain a fly to take her back in, but economy being so imperative she deprecated his doing so, and they walked along slowly, Jude in black crape, she in brown and red clothing.†   (source)
  • "She gets everything, of course—I don't see what we're here for," Mrs. Jack Stepney remarked with careless loudness to Ned Van Alstyne; and the latter's deprecating murmur—"Julia was always a just woman"—might have been interpreted as signifying either acquiescence or doubt.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Mahmoud Ali, this is not wise," implored the Nawab Bahadur: he knew that nothing was gained by attacking the English, who had fallen into their own pit and had better be left there; moreover, he had great possessions and deprecated anarchy.†   (source)
  • Lily met the announcement with her usual composure, though her experience of Bertha's idiosyncrasies would not have led her to include the neighbourly instinct among them; and Mrs. Gormer, relieved to see that she gave no sign of surprise, went on with a deprecating laugh: "Of course what really brought her was curiosity—she made me take her all over the house.†   (source)
  • But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below, with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion into it, of the ivory heel.†   (source)
  • Master Cruncher (who was in his shirt) took this very ill, and, turning to his mother, strongly deprecated any praying away of his personal board.†   (source)
  • The evil principle deprecated in that religion is the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind.†   (source)
  • The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the affected airs of a flattered monster.†   (source)
  • "This is not well, Hetty," he said, deprecating the consequences to the girl herself more than any other evil.†   (source)
  • He had not left her long, by no means long enough for her to have the slightest inclination for thinking of any body else, when a letter was brought her from Randalls—a very thick letter;—she guessed what it must contain, and deprecated the necessity of reading it.†   (source)
  • "I am not so much indifferent on that subject as I am waiting in suspense," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, with his most deprecating smile.†   (source)
  • She occupied herself in the mornings with literary labour; but in spite of this Isabel spent many hours with her friend, who, once her daily task performed, deprecated, in fact defied, isolation.†   (source)
  • Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.†   (source)
  • "Now, don't ye take on so, shepherd, and sit down!" said Henery, with a deprecating peacefulness equal to anything of the kind in Christianity.†   (source)
  • "O, sir!" said the landlady, swinging her long earrings with deprecating modesty; "'tis a' old foolish thing they do in these parts when a man's wife is—well, not too particularly his own.†   (source)
  • Upon this the men began to deride him and to quote past words, till step by step, with deprecating smirks, oily grins, and leers of infinite cunning, the poor Babu was beaten out of his defences and forced to speak—truth.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan, who understood that it was to him this compliment was addressed, approached, assuming a most deprecating air.†   (source)
  • In a fresh silk gown, with a wide velvet head-dress on her hair, with a gold chain round her neck, she sat with deprecating immobility, respectful towards herself and everything surrounding her, and smiled as though she would say, 'I beg your pardon; I'm not to blame.'†   (source)
  • The exclamation was so deprecating and touching that Morris indulged in another little demonstration of affection.†   (source)
  • The old man caught his glance obliquely, with his faded, deprecating eye, and then, lifting his empty glass, pretended to drink again.†   (source)
  • "My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognized as such," the visitor began in an excess of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.†   (source)
  • "I beg your excellency's pardon," interposed the steward in a deprecating manner, "for venturing to observe that it is already two o'clock."†   (source)
  • "How can I help pushing ye when the folk behind push me?" said Coggan, in a deprecating tone, turning his head towards the aforesaid folk as far as he could without turning his body, which was jammed as in a vice.†   (source)
  • Mr. Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • "I meant no harm, Deerslayer," he answered, in a deprecating manner, "and hope you'll forget what I've said.†   (source)
  • For my part I have some fellow-feeling with Dr. Sprague: one's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.†   (source)
  • But as Middleton recovered from his exhaustion he was fain to appease the boisterous temper of his associate, by admonishing him of the uselessness of such denunciations, and of the possibility of their hastening the very evil he deprecated, by irritating the resentments of a race, who were sufficiently fierce and lawless, even in their most pacific moods.†   (source)
  • "No, papa, he's very nice, and Kostya's very fond of him," Kitty said, with a deprecating smile, noticing the irony on her father's face.†   (source)
  • Miss Hepzibah, by secluding herself from society, has lost all true relation with it, and is, in fact, dead; although she galvanizes herself into a semblance of life, and stands behind her counter, afflicting the world with a greatly-to-be-deprecated scowl.†   (source)
  • He was not wrong in thinking that a change had come over Hetty: the anxieties and fears of a first passion, with which she was trembling, had become stronger than vanity, had given her for the first time that sense of helpless dependence on another's feeling which awakens the clinging deprecating womanhood even in the shallowest girl that can ever experience it, and creates in her a sensibility to kindness which found her quite hard before.†   (source)
  • unless it were an acceptance even more to be deprecated, demanding such sacrifices of situation and employment on his side as conscience must forbid.†   (source)
  • He was full of timid care for his wife, not only because he deprecated any harshness of judgment from her, but because he felt a deep distress at the sight of her suffering.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tulliver never went the length of quarrelling with her, any more than a water-fowl that puts out its leg in a deprecating manner can be said to quarrel with a boy who throws stones.†   (source)
  • When the old man had thus given vent to the nearly dormant, but far from extinct, military pride, that had so unconsciously led him into the very error he deprecated, his eye, which had begun to quicken and glimmer with some of the ardour of his youth, softened and turned its anxious look on the devoted captive, whose countenance was also restored to its former cold look of abstraction and thought.†   (source)
  • "Why, Mas'r," said Sam, in a deprecating tone, "I believe you mean to kill us all clar, horses and all.†   (source)
  • He was disturbed by another knock at the door, and rose to open it, rather deprecating a call from anybody just then.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement.†   (source)
  • "No, no, Adolph," he said, one day, as Adolph was deprecating the passing of power out of his hands; "let Tom alone.†   (source)
  • Was it possible to quarrel with a creature who had such eyes,—defying and deprecating, contradicting and clinging, imperious and beseeching,— full of delicious opposites?†   (source)
  • On the offer of the food ordered by Lydgate, which he refused, and the denial of other things which he demanded, he seemed to concentrate all his terror on Bulstrode, imploringly deprecating his anger, his revenge on him by starvation, and declaring with strong oaths that he had never told any mortal a word against him.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tulliver burst out crying afresh, and she sobbed with her handkerchief at her eyes a few moments, but then removing it, she said in a deprecating way, still half sobbing, as if she were called upon to speak before she could command her voice,— "And I did say to him times and times, 'Whativer you do, don't go to law,' and what more could I do?†   (source)
  • "I know what you think," deprecated Henchard running after, almost bowed down with despair as he perceived the image of unscrupulous villainy that he assumed in his former friend's eyes.†   (source)
  • Chang raised his eyebrows in very gentle deprecation of such immediacy.†   (source)
  • "And who is Sordo?" the other asked deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation.†   (source)
  • Oh, it wasn't so bad, just a flesh wound," he said deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • Then, letting his arms slap heavily at his sides, in a gesture of defeat, he began to walk rapidly back and forth, clucking his deprecation loudly.†   (source)
  • For some reason that night while noting my mother's half laughing deprecation—she was guilty of impulsive hospitality—I shared his mood not hers.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps rarely Wang Lung would say, "This is a good dish of noodles," and O-lan would answer in deprecation, "It is good flour we have this year from the fields."†   (source)
  • Padre Jose put up his hand deprecatingly as if he were trying to indicate that he was not there, that he was gone, away, out of sight.†   (source)
  • "Oh, well," she said deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • She thrust her lips out deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • The barman waved back deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • He grinned deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.†   (source)
  • "For de love o' Mike, will you listen to dat, now," exclaimed Hegglund, deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • "Ay," answered Mrs. Morel deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was.†   (source)
  • "Without a song on the way?" he said, in deprecation.†   (source)
  • "I know, I know," said Lydgate, deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • 'Hem!' said Squeers, as if in mild deprecation of this outbreak.†   (source)
  • He pursued his theme, however, without noticing my deprecation.†   (source)
  • "Oh, my good brother!" murmured Mrs. Penniman, in deprecation.†   (source)
  • In the sentiment which led us to deprecate her marriage nothing is changed.†   (source)
  • Again, but with anger, Ben-Hur raised his hand in deprecation.†   (source)
  • "Oh no, Morris!" said Catherine, quite deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • "No, no, dear, no," said Dorothea, putting up her hand with careless deprecation.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," he said, in breathless deprecation, as if he knew what was coming next.†   (source)
  • "See here, Helen, you ain't goin' any farther with that joke, are you?" he queried, deprecatingly, and he still spoke quite loud.†   (source)
  • "Ah, Your Honor!" sighed Claggart, mildly shaking his shapely head as in sad deprecation of such unmerited severity of tone.†   (source)
  • On ascending to the village and approaching the house they found Mrs. Edlin standing at the door, who at sight of them lifted her hands deprecatingly.†   (source)
  • If it came up for discussion among such friends as with him passed for close, he would deprecate the folly of the thing.†   (source)
  • They deprecate the sight of scattered counsels, of internal disagreement; and especially they dislike making their just criticism of a useful and earnest man an excuse for a general discharge of venom from small-minded opponents.†   (source)
  • In this way life went by for my aunt Leonie, always the same, in the gentle uniformity of what she called, with a pretence of deprecation but with a deep tenderness, her 'little jog-trot.'†   (source)
  • And Francoise answered, laughing: "Madame knows everything; Madame is worse than the X-rays" (she pronounced 'x' with an affectation of difficulty and with a smile in deprecation of her, an unlettered woman's, daring to employ a scientific term) "they brought here for Mme. Octave, which see what is in your heart"—and she went off, disturbed that anyone should be caring about her, perhaps anxious that we should not see her in tears: Mamma was the first person who had given her the pleasure of feeling that her peasant existence, with its simple joys and sorrows, might offer some interest, might be a source of grief or pleasure to some one other than herself.†   (source)
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