deprecative
/dep-ri-key-tiv, -kuh-tiv/US // ˈdɛp rɪˌkeɪ tɪv, -kə tɪv //
弃用的,弃用,缺省的,弃用性
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
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Examples
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.
She merely rocked a trifle faster and turned a smile which she strove to make amusedly deprecative upon her hostess.
The gray man turned his opened palm outwards with a deprecative motion which was not English at all.
Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.
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