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- noun Plural form of
deprecation .
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Examples
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The slo-mo is so slow you would need to be not only an expert lip-reader, but to speed up the footage slightly to make out exactly what deprecations were being issued.
Andy Murray swears by bad body language in Australian Open defeat | Martin Kelner 2011
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But, unlike your experience, I found that he DOES add value, does find me deductions I would not find, and he also does all that stuff with deprecations and all that is way over my head.
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They had reached a comfort level where deprecations were almost equivalent to endearments.
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There is some quality of personal charm in Lear, even in his most savage self-deprecations.
Archive 2009-07-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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I recall Richard "If the president does it, it's not illegal" Nixon and the entire Watergate stink that brought to black light his most anti-American, anti-democratic imperious deprecations.
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As if, what minute part of the lies and the deprecations and the raging bigotry offends them?
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For all the Bush administration's grotesqueness and moral corruption, nothing exceeded their deprecations when it came to how they regarded the thousands in our military that it so easily sent into the meat grinders of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Speaking as an orangutan, I am outraged by your deprecations.
The Publishometer: How to tell whether a manuscript will be acquired Editorial Anonymous 2009
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Now that the most lurid details of the Bush administration deprecations have been leaking to light, by the most recent polls, a majority of Americans are demanding full investigations, that wherever the evidence leads ... so be it.
Time for the Dems to Get Some 'Chicago Way' in Their Spines 2009
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In 2004, 2006, and in 2008, stuffed past the gagging point with the Bush-GOP deprecations and economic predations, I volunteered to do whatever I could to throw the bums out, to install Democratic candidates I believed to be genuine progressives.
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