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adverbdeprecatingly (comparative more deprecatingly, superlative most deprecatingly)
comparative more deprecatingly · superlative most deprecatingly
- In a deprecating manner.
Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1
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deprecatingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deprecatingly
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“deprecatingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deprecatingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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