deprecating

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of deprecate

adj

1. In manner that deprecates; insulting; belittling.

   “She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.”

   “He raised his hand with a deprecating gesture.”

   “Theodora, with a deprecating look at Arnold Sherman, took his arm, and Ludovic marched her across the green amid a silence which the very horses tied to the storm fence seemed to share. For Ludovic 'twas a crowded hour of glorious life.”

   “It is now clear that the term Hobson-Jobson was originally a deprecating Anglo-Indian slang term for the Muharram used particularly in the army and merchant navy but also more widely.”