deprecatingly
English
editEtymology
editFrom deprecating + -ly.
Adverb
editdeprecatingly (comparative more deprecatingly, superlative most deprecatingly)
- In a deprecating manner.
- 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
- Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.