deprecatory

deprecatory
    adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
           "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
           "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
           remark" [syn: {belittling}, {deprecating}, {deprecative},
           {deprecatory}, {depreciative}, {depreciatory},
           {slighting}]
    

deprecatory \dep"re*ca*to*ry\ (d[e^]p"r[-e]*k[.a]*t[-o]*r[y^]),
   a. [L. deprecatorius.]
   1. Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
      [1913 Webster]

            Humble and deprecatory letters.       --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Serving to deprecate; expressing a low opinion of.

   Syn: belittling, disparaging, depreciative, deprecatory,
        depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting,
        slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
        [PJC]
    

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprecatory":
      abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful,
      calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory,
      contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory,
      deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
      derogative, derogatory, detractory, diffident, disparaging,
      execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing,
      judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative,
      priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing,
      scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, self-deprecating,
      self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-distrustful,
      self-doubting, self-effacing, slanderous, slighting,
      unselfconfident, unselfreliant, vilifying, vituperative