Definitions for: Deprecatory

[adj] tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"

Webster (1913) Definition: Dep"re*ca*to*ry, a. [L. deprecatorius.]
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by
prayer; apologetic.

Humble and deprecatory letters. --Bacon.

Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting, uncomplimentary