deprecatingly

English

Etymology

From deprecating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

deprecatingly (comparative more deprecatingly, superlative most deprecatingly)

1. In a deprecating manner.
   • 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:

     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.

Derived terms

• self-deprecatingly