So no one was overlooked; and, when the family reassembled in the drawing room before starting for church, there ensued a gay confusion, a mirthful strife, in the mutual offering and deprecating acknowledgments.
I was only speaking of him socially," said Van Loo, with a deprecating smile.
The parson fixed his meek eyes on the philosopher, and there was in them something so deprecating rather than reproachful that Dr.
Randal, glancing round the room, as if deprecating the presence of so many witnesses.
Jules asked, with a deprecating lift of the eyebrows.
There was a servile hump to his shoulders; a deprecating instability in his glance greeted the boy.
He pondered soberly, and spoke again with a deprecating cough.
There was, at these strangely contrasted periods, such a look of deprecating humility, such an appearance of conscious wrong, as touched me deeply, and won my pity to a great extent.
Poor Faustina died, blessing with her latest breath, the being who had by his cruelty killed her, and deprecating even remorse to visit him, she left the world, in which she had loved in vain.
She made a little deprecating gesture with her disengaged hand as if to ward off any retaliating gallantry.
As he gazed at his wife's troubled face, an apologetic cloud came over his rugged but open brow, and a smile of awkward deprecating embarrassment suffused his eyes.
Mr. Orme affected, under such circumstances, a bluff and hearty stoicism as remote as possible from Mrs. Peyton's deprecatingevasion of facts.
He dropped down beside her with a deprecating laugh.
Coggan, in a deprecating tone, turning his head towards the aforesaid folk as far as he could without turning his body, which was jammed as in a vice.
Henery, with a deprecating peacefulness equal to anything of the kind in Christianity.
Indeed, observing the bird lay down his life, the fowler, deprecating his own acts, began to indulge in copious lamentations like thee.
Those wicked men, though possessed of great learning, travel all over the earth, making speeches in assemblies, and deprecating the true doctrine about emancipation.
I'll splain all in a minit," he said with a deprecating wave of the hand.
And when she had finished deprecating Agatha's raptures and had escaped her sister's further questions by going to bed, Phillida found that her own imagination had at length been set a-going, and her pillow reveries kept her awake.
I am sure there was real enjoyment in a church social," he said, with a deprecating laugh, "to say nothing of the money raised to recarpet the church aisles.
Resolutions were passed deprecating violence whether in language or action; and the presence either of Lord Daer or Colonel Dalrymple in the chair showed that some, at least, of the gentry were for Reform.
Not a mite," protested the little man, with a deprecating gesture.
It ain't got far toward the public," objected Willie, with a deprecatingshrug of his shoulders.
He winced under Wyllard's gaze, and spread out his hands with a deprecating gesture.
She had lost much of her former beauty and had become a thin, pale woman with anxious eyes and an expectant and deprecating air, as if always prepared to ward off a sudden blow.
Letter to Postmaster-General deprecating Compulsory Employment on the Sunday.
MacNutt, turning, purplish gray of face, on the deprecating Durkin.
The district-attorney turned over the card which had been brought in to him, with a deprecating uplift of the eyebrows.
Edward Dunsack opened the day by deprecating what fireworks Salem could show and recalling the extravagant art of China in that particular.
He composed himself--the first feeling blotting out his other emotions--to meet the deprecating interrogation before him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deprecating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
