(v. t.) To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I cannot tell you how I should deprecate anything leading to the publication of these letters," she clucked to her publisher.
(2) Low degrees of role interference is likewise disconcerting to persons but in the absence of an external target for aggression may lead to self deprecation and ultimately suicide.
(3) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
(4) Stone’s depiction of himself in his book tallies well with Bilton’s: self-deprecating, a peacemaker, but also someone who gets things done.
(5) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(6) This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire.
(7) He reads out deprecating messages: "Loving the show, even the little mistakes," "Sounds like you're on some ITV sitcom in the 80s."
(8) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?
(9) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(10) But he uses what he learned from Rantzen: she taught him, he said somewhat self-deprecatingly, the “tricks of trash journalism.
(11) Whether she's pitching her own feminist rap video or reading us her cautionary rewrite of The Ugly Duckling, her self-deprecating anecdotal style invites us to laugh at her middle-class embarrassment while she slips some important truths past.
(12) Like Diana, Prince Philip has tended to be self-deprecating on the subject of his education ("I am one of those ignorant bastards who never went to a university").
(13) The use of AAS as ergogenic drugs must be deprecated because of their marginal effects, the risks of side effects and the unsporting, unethical aspects.
(14) Now the self-deprecating circular is fashionable, and we've had a few this year.
(15) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(16) When the intensity of the noise increased to 70 and 75dB SPL, speech discrimination scores by both devices deprecated together with consistent difference (P less than 0.01).
(17) Cat videos aside, there’s an unspoken war going on – who can be the funniest, who can be the cleverest, who has the most amusingly self-deprecating hangover.
(18) For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
(19) Briers, always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men, relished the review, happy to claim a place in the light comedians' gallery of his knighted idols Charles Hawtrey, Gerald du Maurier and Noël Coward.
(20) Polypharmacy is deprecated and either an aminoglycoside or a cephalosporin forms the mainstay of therapy.
Execrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
(2) A critical review of epidemiological and experimental data from the literature has been made in an attempt to present an objective picture of this controversial and sensitive question and to encourage further research, which may ultimately determine whether arsenic deserves its execrable reputation.
(3) LP: My only experience of this was - and this might end up selling a lot of videos of a film that no one's ever seen - I produced a really execrable film in the mid-70s called Lisztomania, and I hope that no one here's seen it.
(4) Unrecorded in the YouGov poll are people who dislike all-women shortlists but dislike yet more the reason for their continued existence: the very culture that just created the execrable, the relentlessly mocked Woman Who Made up Her Mind .
(5) Its performance over the scandal of Winterbourne View was execrable, and this seemed to speak of much wider and more fundamental problems in its approach, resourcing and leadership.
(6) For the dark knight, readers will recall with horror George Clooney's bemused and Bat-nippled turn in the execrable Batman and Robin in 1997.
(7) The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, is a woman editor in a publishing house in the 1950s; her sworn enemy the execrable, self-congratulatory writer Hector Bartlett, to whom she refers to as the pisseur de copie.
(8) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(9) PII certificates, he said, had previously been greeted by "howls of execration".
(10) Those movies include turkeys such as Jack and Jill and the execrable That's My Boy , though the rather better-performing Grown Ups 2 does not feature for statistical purposes because it falls outside the time period being factored in by Forbes.
(11) Lucas, the ultimate fanboy, has been the biggest culprit with his execrable prequels.
(12) I can already hear the howls of execration: now you're claiming that this cooling is the result of warming!
(13) His sweeping pronouncements never fail to set the leaves aflutter in the groves of academe, and his name surely is execrated in cultural studies departments from sea to shining sea across America.
(14) I’d like to be there, watching, when the old family films are played, and I’d like to impose my execrable musical taste on my friends and watch their faces as they suffer it.
(15) Ford, who is currently promoting his role in the sci-fi movie Ender's Game , is also taking a role in the latest film in Sylvester Stallone's execrable Expendables series .