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deprecatingly

deprecatingly adverb: in a deprecating manner.

Adverb

deprecatingly (comparative more deprecatingly, superlative most deprecatingly)

  1. In a deprecating manner.
    • Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1

Forms of deprecatingly

comparativemore deprecatingly
superlativemost deprecatingly

Origin of deprecatingly

From deprecating + -ly.

Words formed from deprecatingly

Questions about deprecatingly

What does deprecatingly mean?
Deprecatingly means in a deprecating manner.
What part of speech is deprecatingly?
Deprecatingly is an adverb.

Words near deprecatingly in the dictionary

  1. deprecable
  2. deprecate
  3. deprecated
  4. deprecates
  5. deprecating
  6. deprecatingly
  7. deprecation
  8. deprecations
  9. deprecative
  10. deprecatively
  11. deprecator

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