deprecatingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a deprecating manner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English deprecating Middle English -ly English -ly English deprecatingly From deprecating + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more deprecatingly (comparative)
most deprecatingly (superlative)