deprecating

• “It is ironic how the American Art World puts everything outside itself in deprecating categories, especially Ethnic Art, yet what could be more ethnic than it?”

  July 2008

• “You will also recall deprecating my lack of rigour in writing comments on a blog without what might be considered the apparatus appropriate to a scholarly monograph (that is, citations for every borrowing or quote).”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else.”

  February 2004

• “Fresh Prince of Bellaire, including the exact same wardrobe and throw in some dope self deprecating rhymes with a thumping beat and I'm sold.”

  Hypebeast

• “Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"?”

  languagehat.com: NO USE WHATEVER.

• “I suppose I have been a very bad boy," said he, with a kind of deprecating smile, as though he did not believe more than one half he said.”

  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.

• “There was just something about that line, and I suppose the self-deprecating sense of humor that he portrayed; and I thought there's my voice.”

  An interview with Michael Robotham

• “If I were in a better frame of mine I could probably be far more self deprecating.”

  Confessions of a literary fraud « Write Anything

• “Very few of us find it easy to talk about ourselves in anything other than an aw shucks, self-deprecating way.”

  Hiding Behind Your Words « Write Anything

• “In that formula, the first 85 or 90 percent of your remarks are supposed to be funny -- biting, a little bipartisan, and significantly self-deprecating.”

  The Huffington Post: Sen. Chris Coons: The Alternate Ending to My Congressional Correspondents Dinner Speech

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