Looking for sentences and phrases with the word deprecatingly? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
When he met William Glock for the first time, the BBC head of music and boss of the Proms spoke deprecatingly of Tod's predilection for the music of Vaughan Williams, Delius and Bax.
Gallicised into 'Huguenot', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honour and courage.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Very lights burned deprecatingly, illuminating beauties upon which no eye gazed and for which no heart beat.
He waved his hand deprecatingly, the bradawl used for his work in it.
Of course, she said, a little deprecatingly, there are crudities.
Keggs shook his head deprecatingly, as one who, realizing his limitations, declines to attempt to probe the hidden sources of human actions.
Madame della scala laughed and spread out her hands deprecatingly.
She raised her drooping head and again regarded him deprecatingly.
Agatha, witless and dumb, could only look down deprecatingly.
