Definition of "deprecative" []

• Tending to deprecate; disapproving. (adjective)

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• "Overly contemplative, fairly self-deprecative, and slightly worrisome and unsettled."
• ""You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between.""
• "How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?"