deprecatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: dep=re=ca=to=ry

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

deprecatory

Deprecation

N deprecation, expostulation, intercession, mediation, protest, remonstrance, deprecatory, expostulatory, intercessory, mediatorial, deprecated, protested, unsought, unbesought, unasked &c (ask), Int, cry you mercy!, God forbid!, forbid it Heaven!, Heaven forefend, Heaven forbid!, far be it from!, hands off!, please don't.

Detraction

N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.