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Example sentences for "deprecated"

Lexicographically close words:
depraves; depraving; depravities; depravity; deprecate; deprecates; deprecating; deprecatingly; deprecation; deprecatory
  1. He wished to obtain a fly to take her back in, but economy being so imperative she deprecated his doing so, and they walked along slowly, Jude in black crape, she in brown and red clothing.

  2. It was very perplexing to her lover that she should be piqued at his honest acquiescence in his rival, if Jude's feelings of love were deprecated by her.

  3. On the other hand, the rabbis opposed the Essenic idea of assigning to the angels an intermediary task between God and man, and deprecated as a pagan custom the worship or invocation of angels.

  4. All the patriots of the American Revolution whose opinions we know, deprecated the venality of the press.

  5. He deprecated a spirit of persecution by one sect of Christians towards another.

  6. He was plain in everything and deprecated pomp and vain show in others.

  7. Among the people he found many who deprecated the course of ministers--a respectable minority of the eminent British statesmen considered the advisers of the king visionary in their plans--unreasonable in their demands.

  8. They both lead to destruction and are deprecated by all good men.

  9. War is a calamity to be deprecated at all times.

  10. Our host here deprecated discussion, as it 'exhausted the medium.

  11. I said this because I saw that the very researches which the lady deprecated were leading us to such a knowledge of epidemic diseases as will enable us finally to sweep these scourges of the human race from the face of the earth.

  12. After this there was a lull, but Gordon felt too weak to attempt anything serious against Soochow, and he deprecated all operations until he could strike an effective blow.

  13. Their evident hesitation and embarrassment show plainly how much they deprecated the effect of this part of their folly, and therefore I am the more anxious that they should be exposed, if not caught in their own wicked devices.

  14. But has any Suffrage speaker or meeting denounced them, or deprecated the result of the election?

  15. I think Mr. Lincoln always regretted that he entered into that arrangement, as he deprecated every thing that savored of the revolutionary.

  16. The better class of citizens, however, deprecated the outrage, and pledged themselves to reimburse Mr. Lovejoy, in case he would agree not to make his paper an abolition journal.

  17. This event is, in my opinion, to be deprecated by the friends of France.

  18. Though such a war might be gainful to us, yet it is much to be deprecated by us at this time.

  19. Senator Sherman deprecated the action of the majority.

  20. Certainly nobody deprecated or criticised the projected alliance; though it was known to be with middle-class people who were not in Society, but merely quiet folk of wealth and respectability.

  21. At last, when Mrs. Robinson innocently suggested that Wyndham should ask him to come to see the portrait at the studio, he deprecated the idea with some degree of vehemence.

  22. Men who but a short time before had been absorbed by their business pursuits, and deprecated all political agitation, were startled out of their security by a sudden alarm, and excitedly took sides.

  23. Mr. Blair, after he came in, deprecated the policy on the ground that it would cost the administration the fall elections.

  24. All deprecated and deplored this, but none saw how to avert it.

  25. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.

  26. Just at the beginning of the hostilities, my husband had deprecated the rashness of the French people, which was blinding them to the unprepared state of their army, and to its numerical inferiority when compared with the German force.

  27. She deprecated the connexion in every light.

  28. He deprecated her mistaken but well-meaning zeal.

  29. He believed that slavery was infinitely more deprecated in countries where it actually existed, and consequently where its evils were known, than in other countries where it was only an object of conversation.

  30. He wished to guard against this evil in future; he was willing, for himself, that every syllable he uttered within those walls should be carried to every part of the Union, but he deprecated misrepresentation.

  31. The extent of our revenue was not as well known then as at present, and every good man deprecated the misfortune which obliged him to increase the taxes.

  32. The Pall Mall Gazette had deprecated the meeting as held in an illegal place, though for a perfectly legal purpose.

  33. At another point he somewhat impatiently deprecated a particular line of argument, and Bradlaugh quietly answered, "My Lord, I must fight with what weapons I can.

  34. Those who deprecated his legal way of fighting legal battles simply failed to appreciate the lawyer's method.

  35. The Home Secretary deprecated the attempt in the name of the interests of orthodoxy, as he had previously done an attempt to secure a prosecution of the Freethinker.

  36. Mr (now Sir) Thomas Wright of Leicester stood as a Liberal candidate at the request of a large body of the electors, and though not combining with Bradlaugh, deprecated the running of a second and hostile Liberal candidate.

  37. They certainly came ill from the editor who had deprecated Bradlaugh's willingness to take any oath.

  38. She knew that her mother deprecated "that Belward enigma," but this only sent her on the dangerous way.

  39. Gaston deprecated with a gesture: "Can I do anything for you, sir?

  40. They did not deny that fasting might be a good thing, nor did they maintain that the church or the authority might not ordain fasts, though they deprecated the imposition of needless burdens on the conscience.

  41. Among the railroad men who had violated the law but who deprecated the necessity of so doing, was Paul Morton, president of the Santa Fé system.

  42. Disclaiming any preconceived conviction as to the merits of the dispute, he nevertheless deprecated the possibility that a European country, by extending its boundaries, might take possession of the territory of one of its neighbors.

  43. An antitrust plank deprecated combinations designed to create monopolies, and promised legislation to prevent such abuses.

  44. Neither party wished to risk the labor vote by opposing the unions, and the public did not desire a strike, much as it deprecated the attitude of the labor leaders in threatening trouble at this juncture.

  45. The President's conversion to preparedness was interpreted as a tardy recognition of an obvious duty, and his plan deprecated as no more than a "shadow program.

  46. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish; and the war came.

  47. Mr. Webster came forward in a time when party spirit ran high, and the declaration of war in 1812, long deprecated by his party, created a demand for the best talent the country afforded.

  48. They deprecated rebellion by slaves, and urged congressional action against slavery only in the District of Columbia, in the territories, and at sea, where the absolute jurisdiction of the general Government was admitted by nearly all.


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