| Agatha, witless and dumb, could only look down deprecatingly. |
| 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. |
| Madame della scala laughed and spread out her hands deprecatingly. |
| Keggs shook his head deprecatingly, as one who, realizing his limitations, declines to attempt to probe the hidden sources of human actions. |
| 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. |
| The Very lights burned deprecatingly, illuminating beauties upon which no eye gazed and for which no heart beat. |
