Deprecating

Deprecating remarks are made about the small rock with the numbers 1620 carved in it that is kept in a cage, about the symbolism of its imprisonment, about how "the Native Americans didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."

An American Indian Gathering at Thanksgiving 2009

I also think we should have an award for “Least Self-Deprecating City in Amer­ica.”

Drove to Chicago / All Things Know, All Things Know « Snarkmarket 2006

Self-Deprecating: Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who had her extra waist flesh in mind when she told a photographer during a performance at the Wall Street Journal Cafe, "I hope you're not shooting my muffin top!"

Darrell Hartman: Sundance: The Celebrity Mood Map 2008

Daryl and I need to get on the stick and put on our Texas Self-Deprecating Sock Puppet presentation.

I Want to Live In One of These | clusterflock 2008

My "Self-Deprecating Sally" mode kicked in, and I joked around with a man lucky enough for front row seats.

Archive 2006-04-01 Michelle Collins 2006

My "Self-Deprecating Sally" mode kicked in, and I joked around with a man lucky enough for front row seats.

You Can't Make It Up Michelle Collins 2006

Deprecating glances were a small thing indeed for her to bear in return for all that Nathan had done for her, and for the respect he always showed her.

Temple of the Winds Goodkind, Terry 1997

Deprecating passion of any kind, Demosthenes points out the real question at issue.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

Deprecating this result, for no very obvious reason, it has to balance itself on the thin edge of an unwilling materialism, with a continual protestation that it does not believe in anything that it thinks.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

[Deprecating thanks and moral precept] That's all right!

Plays : Fifth Series John Galsworthy 1900