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refusal to accept as right or desirable
- considering that he's a member of the old school, his deprecation of contemporary manners isn't surprising
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the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant
- she had low self-esteem, so she made up for it with a near-constant deprecation of other people
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“Deprecation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprecation. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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