depreciatory

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for depreciatory
Adjective
  • To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Perkins said the drink bore the insulting message.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This subsided with unusual speed, however, as cricket fans took instead to sharing the self-deprecatory jokes coming over the border.
    The Economist, The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Philipps has acquired her 1-million-and-growing Instagram followers through her self-deprecatory humor, raw honesty and vulnerability.
    Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
Adjective
  • The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Lorena, now 55, was charged with malicious wounding, a felony offense, but was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity following a two-week trial in early 1994.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Capítulo 0 is no DTmF, but that characterization shouldn’t be seen as derogatory.
    Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This is a derogatory term for robots and AI technology.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The intensity of Irish expressions of solidarity in 2024 caused one pro-Israel commentator, Ben Cohen, to coin the term Paddystinian as a derisive epithet to counter the narrative, conflating the pejorative stereotype of the drunken Paddy with Palestine.
    Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, locals use a different (and pejorative) term for the other versions: arroz con cosas, or rice with things.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Neither party admitted to liability and each agreed to refrain from making disparaging, negative or uncomplimentary statements about the other, the document said.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2022
  • Though the pollen gunk will pass, he's concerned by a contingent of Twitter trolls who've shared uncomplimentary reviews of his recent North American tour.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
Adjective
  • The band was concerned about their record label’s reaction, but despite the movie’s scene with a Myers cameo as a contemptuous exec, Reid insists there was no confrontation.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There are some good, compassionate officers out there, but the general attitude has become cold, cruel and contemptuous toward homeless individuals.
    Bruce Higgins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For decades, Indigenous leaders and advocates across the state and country have been trying to convince school communities that the use of such mascots and logos are inappropriate, demeaning and harmful.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One detainee who submitted an account to the court that was referenced by Gregorio described sleeping in foul-smelling facilities and facing demeaning treatment by ICE agents.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Depreciatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depreciatory. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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