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Depreciating

adjective

Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value. Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory. "Depreciatory effects on prices"

Depreciate

verb

(past & past part. depreciated; pres. part. depreciating)

Belittle. Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend.

Lower the value of something.

Lose in value. Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue.

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"Depreciating" Quotes from Famous Books

... He commonly spoke of his life as a professor with whimsical disparagement, as Henry Adams wrote of his own teaching with a somewhat cynical disparagement. But the fact is that both of these self-depreciating New Englanders were stimulating and valuable teachers. From his happily idle boyhood to the close of his fruitful career, Lowell's loyalty to Cambridge and Harvard was unalterable. Other tastes changed after ...

— Modern American Prose Selections • Various

... abruptly as he had entered, and he paused long enough outside to know that a silence marked his going. Then he heard Ed Koran's voice depreciating him. Frankly he ...

— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower

... examples and its warnings. But he was sure that the Future must be different, and might be better. In the same disdainful spirit he rejected Religion as the accumulated legacy of childhood, and believed that it arrested progress by depreciating terrestrial objects. Nevertheless he had the confidence of Lubersac, Bishop of Treguier, and afterwards of Chartres, who recommended him to the clergy ...

— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... attempt to erect the philosophy of morals into an independent science, we shall soon find that its highest inductions only lead us to a point beyond which we are condemned to wander in doubt and in darkness. But, on the other hand, by depreciating philosophy, or the light which is derived from the moral impressions of the mind, we deprive ourselves of a most important source of evidence in support of revelation. For it is from these impressions, viewed in connexion with the actual state of man, ...

— The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings • John Abercrombie

... Henry to be ridiculous to believe that the English government was deliberately depreciating the work of the Irish soldiers, and he said so. "They hardly mention the names of any regiments," he ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

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