The one, in his eagerness to sell his goods, bestowing upon them the most unqualified praise; the other depreciating them below their real value, in order to obtain them at an unreasonably low price.
Mr. Doubleday asserts that some one had caused a large quantity of French assignats to be forged at Birmingham, with the view of depreciating the credit of the French Republic.
Johnson, who had been befriended by Richardson, was never tired of depreciating Fielding and crying up the author of "Pamela.
The gold monometallists harp on the injustice of a depreciating dollar, but they ignore the injuries inflicted by an appreciating dollar.
Eccellenza received me with the greatest kindness, but all the family continued to use the old teaching tone and depreciating mode of treatment.
Marked care is shown in depreciating his former efforts in advancing steam navigation, and in representing him, in the present case, as the passive approver of the project of another (p.
Don't mistake me; I am not depreciatingwhat is called high society, no more than I would condemn a particular climate.
The "Times" little knew the good it was doing us when it was blackguarding the Irish landlords, and depreciating Irish property.
Those who handle the trowel and the hammer act very unwisely in depreciating those who plan the structure, clear away the rubbish, and lay the foundation, or who in other ways help on the building.
Undoubtedly, it is necessary to guard against depreciating the mind of man by charging it with faults which it has not, or by exaggerating those which it has; but it is no less improper to puff it up by exalting its strength too much.
The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
If we give faith its due prominence, the mere moralist reprobates our principles as if we were depreciating works.
English travellers, from a habit perhaps of depreciating sectarians in their own country, are apt to look down upon the Oriental Christians as being “dissenters” from the established religion of a Mahometan empire.
Not even the diplomatic representatives of the Hellenic kingdom are free from the habit of depreciating their brethren.
Taxation was heavy, wages low and prices high, and there was not a man in the colony who did not feel the effect of the rapidly depreciating currency.
He seldom lost an opportunity of depreciating the common people, and of excluding them from politics.
Disfranchisement is a convenient means of depreciating women in private life, and the main bulwark of the male ego.
That there would be danger of the Government's notes [a part of the circulating medium] depreciating unless they were redeemable in gold in the country itself.
And now the Government is paralyzed financially, in its efforts to suppress the rebellion, by a question as to State banks, depreciating the currency, and State banks based on State stocks.
What then is the remedy for our depreciated and depreciating national currency?
His bitter, scoffing, depreciating disposition does not show itself in so unmitigated a manner as in his Memoirs.
He could not deny that Voltaire and Rousseau were clever men; but he took every opportunity of depreciating them.
Also, viewed as a depreciating economic asset with a limited life span, many composting aids cost as much or more money as the value of all the material they can ever turn out.
He took a pleasure in thus depreciating the woman he loved--it gave his anger vent, and seemed to make her acquisition more probable.
But Hutchings, feeling that he was in the wrong, had contented himself withdepreciating Roberts by sneer and innuendo, and so had aroused her generous partisanship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depreciating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
