单词 | depreciative |
例句 | Typically somewhat depreciative, often in questions conveying surprise or incredulity. The Oxford English Dictionary Just Added 'Woke' 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z As Katherine Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, points out the term “female” has had depreciative connotations for longer than one might expect. 'Female' Is Now a Dirty Word 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z With regard to the old monk's criticism it must be remembered that old age is always rather depreciative in criticism of the present and over-appreciative of what happened in the past se pueris. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Countess Anna asks of Count Treurenberg, in a rather depreciative tone, just before they reach their gondola. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z How good he was! he who was as scornfully depreciative of his own merits as if the bones of another Mr. Clarke had been bleaching in some distant cave in imperishable evidence of his guilt. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Some of the commentaries on Auenbrugger's work are not entirely depreciative, however. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Fernanda talked of her late husband in a tone that lapsed from compassionate to depreciative, for she had lived with him in a state of antagonism of ideas and tastes that had kept them apart. The Grandee Succeeding generations adopting their depreciative term have turned it into one of glory so that Gothic art is now in highest honor. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z W. Keyse whistled depreciatively between his teeth, and elevated his scanty eyebrows. The Dop Doctor The best they could do was to aver that he had written “depreciative words” against the Government and the Church. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords. Speeches: Literary and Social During the journey he related with an indifferent air his hunting exploits in this or that forest of the Peninsula, adopting a tone somewhat depreciative, as suited the case, toward hunting in Filipinas. The Reign of Greed In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people. The Life of Abraham Lincoln This was characteristic of him—ever depreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men’s labours. Fletcher of Madeley I merely wish to point out a perfectly legitimate and even important signification of the terms high and low, quite apart from their popular employment as laudatory or depreciative epithets. The Nature of Goodness |
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