Deprecating

It is ironic how the American Art World puts everything outside itself in deprecating categories, especially Ethnic Art, yet what could be more ethnic than it? ❋ Unknown (2008)

You will also recall deprecating my lack of rigour in writing comments on a blog without what might be considered the apparatus appropriate to a scholarly monograph (that is, citations for every borrowing or quote). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Fresh Prince of Bellaire, including the exact same wardrobe and throw in some dope self deprecating rhymes with a thumping beat and I'm sold. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"? ❋ Unknown (2005)

"I suppose I have been a very bad boy," said he, with a kind of deprecating smile, as though he did not believe more than one half he said. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

Reminds me (since Georgia is an attorney) of the self-deprecating Senator Sam Ervin whose eloquence was legendary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Very few of us find it easy to talk about ourselves in anything other than an aw shucks, self-deprecating way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was asked, since I have stated that The Red Tree is heavily autobiographical, and since Sarah Crowe (the novel's narrator) makes self-deprecating comments about her own writing, which include calling it "genre drivel," does this mean I hate the genre I'm writing in. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

In that formula, the first 85 or 90 percent of your remarks are supposed to be funny -- biting, a little bipartisan, and significantly self-deprecating. ❋ Sen. Chris Coons (2011)

Wigg, portraying a self-obsessed actress who always says the secret word, was matched by Lynch's Phyllis Diller-like, self-deprecating comedian who delivers jokes instead of clues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The observation suggested the headline for the magazine profile, “Heaven on Earth: The Gospel According to Allen Knowles,” and the theme for many deprecating sermons in many places of worship on many Sundays that followed its publication. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

If I were in a better frame of mine I could probably be far more self deprecating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But that wasn't because I gave myself some self-deprecating speech about standards of beauty, it was because I knew * from experience* that sometimes the goofy looking ones have the best chemistry ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

So just because you may turn into a sex-obsessed, self-deprecating, cheating, lying, awful person if you allow yourself to enjoy the physical pleasures our bodies offer, doesn't mean everyone else will. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Completely self deprecating and not the “worship me” ass I thought he would be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was just something about that line, and I suppose the self-deprecating sense of humor that he portrayed; and I thought there's my voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: tantrictim says: come on people, if obama can make such a self deprecating remark about race, matthews should be given a pass ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Vi] is deprecated! [Move up] to [Vim]! ❋ The Grammar Nazi (2001)

"[Im] going to deprecate that [B1] [shit]" ❋ Definitely_not_me (2014)

Don't [deprecate] [perfectly] [good words]. ❋ Bad Grammar Must Die (2003)

Young girls are so self deprecating. They never talk about anything but their flaws. [Tate]: I have to cancel our plans this weekend! [Lana]: [Don't worry about it]; I'm an expert when it comes to spending weekends alone. Tate: You're so self deprecating sometimes, Lana. ❋ Kellyisawin! (2013)

She has [low self-esteem] [and is] [prone] to self-deprecation. ❋ BobTheMan (2005)

Self-Deprecation is such a [common] form of [humor], even [Urban Dictionary] itself does it. ❋ Someone Who Kinda Exists (2021)

[jenna] is [such a] heehee deprecator ❋ Heehee Enthusiast (2018)

[I am the] [king] of self-deprecation. ❋ Master Of Disater (2003)

ex. 1 Yeah, I just walked into the wall outside *smiles, while friend laughs* man I'm clumsy. ex. 2 Dang, [your're] all such good students, studying for the test, I'm [prolly] gonna fail. *says [the straight] A student* ❋ Andriod5 (2005)

[Bruce]: I [took a shit] last night that was so bad, the power [grid] went down for 30 minutes Lisa: I believe you just engaged in some classic Self-Deprecating Defacating ❋ Urban Humor (2019)