deprecator

As Bernard Lazare put it in his Antisemitism: Its History and Causes 1894, “To the antisemite, the Jew is an individual of a foreign race, incapable of adapting himself, hostile to Christian civilization and religion; immoral, antisocial, of an intellectuality different from the Aryan intellectuality, and, to cap it all, a deprecator and wrongdoer.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

As Bernard Lazare put it in his Antisemitism: Its History and Causes 1894, “To the antisemite, the Jew is an individual of a foreign race, incapable of adapting himself, hostile to Christian civilization and religion; immoral, antisocial, of an intellectuality different from the Aryan intellectuality, and, to cap it all, a deprecator and wrongdoer.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

'It is a risky form of humour because it can draw attention to one's real faults, thereby diminishing the self-deprecator's status in the eyes of others.

Self-Deprecation Works 2008

Words to Live By Award: In a rare moment of earnestness, self-deprecator extraordinaire David Hasselhoff gets serious on The Hasselhoffs when a student at his daughter's school brings up the "hamburger incident."

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During stretches of this summer I've worried about becoming nothing but a deprecator, and with ample reason.

Diamonds Amid the Dross 2008

Had John McCain avoided celebrating the strong fundamentals of the economy when he did, left Sarah Palin to her moose, or campaigned as the McCain of 2000 - the funny, endearing self-deprecator of last weekend's Saturday Night Live; the noble spirit who gave such a gracious valedictory in Phoenix - six Obama voters in a hundred might have switched sides and handed the old man the White House.

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