Definitions for depreciatory

depreciatory de·pre·ci·a·to·ry

Spelling: [dih-pree-shee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -pree-shuh-]
IPA: /dɪˈpri ʃi əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, -ˈpri ʃə-/

Depreciatory is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1235 anagrams from letters in depreciatory (acdeeioprrty).

Definitions for depreciatory

adjective

  1. tending to depreciate.

Origin of depreciatory

First recorded in 1795-1805; depreciate + -ory1

Examples for depreciatory

But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence—surely not.

There was some superior and depreciatory laughter, and then Mona was required to repeat what she knew.

You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.

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

All of its despatches from the West, Churchill's as well as others, were depreciatory.

Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.

Surely his friends have cherished the story out of no petty love of depreciatory detail?

His depreciatory view was in part, too, I believe, an echo from his favourite Vidocq.

And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.

“A precious small one, though,” said Roberts in a depreciatory tone.

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