Example sentences for: deprecatory

How can you use “deprecatory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now, had you not managed to be so sweepingly offensive to Native Americans, too, by your disrespectful use of the deprecatory term "Injun" (your momma should spank your bottom and put a bar of Lifebuoy in your mouth), you might at least have picked up a few admirers within these borders, given the thesis implied by the title to your article.

  • But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).


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