deprecatingly
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English deprecating Middle English -ly English -ly English deprecatingly From deprecating + -ly.
- In a deprecating manner.
“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.”