deprecating

== English == === Verb === deprecating present participle and gerund of deprecate === Adjective === deprecating (comparative more deprecating, superlative most deprecating) In manner that deprecates; insulting; belittling. 1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea, Chapter I. The Hurrying of Ludovic, 7 Theodora, with a deprecating look at Arnold Sherman, took his arm, and Ludovic marched her across the green amid a silence which the very horses tied to the storm fence seemed to share. For Ludovic 'twas a crowded hour of glorious life. ==== Derived terms ==== deprecatingly self-deprecating ==== Translations ====