deprecation

So going into this game against Uruguay, there was none of the usual English self-deprecation.

I looked at parts of it," he says, adding with wry self-deprecation, "I didn't see much benefit in comparing myself to Marlon.

Then, in that interview, the Oscar nominee took the self-deprecation shtick beyond any reasonable expectation.

Laid back and imbued with a healthy sense of self deprecation, Venezuelans occasionally take to the streets to protest.

The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice.

"A very minor one then," he said, with deprecation; but tears shone in his dark blue eyes.

Weston looked at her a moment hesitatingly, and then made a little gesture of deprecation.

Then she noticed that he had stopped, and was looking at her in deprecation, and was holding aside the screen of moose-maples.

It might have been in almost compassionate deprecation of this weak note that Mrs. Brookenham looked at him.

As for the Campanian, he raised his hands in voluble deprecation of the apology.