- The
Ethics of Diet: A
Catena of
Authorities Deprecatory of the
Practice of Flesh-eating is an 1883 book by
Howard Williams, on the
history of vegetarianism...
- of modifiers, it
refers to
white people and has a
history of
racially deprecatory and
pejorative use.
Cantonese speakers frequently use
gwailou to refer...
- respectively.
Plutarch writes that
Cicero was
urged to
change this
deprecatory name when he
entered politics, but refused,
saying that he
would make...
- incompetent. However, it was used most
prominently in the Qing
dynasty as a
deprecatory first-person
pronoun by
Manchu or
Bannermen officials at
court when addressing...
-
refers to the country. In México, Guatemala, and El
Salvador gabacho is a
deprecatory reference for
someone from the U.S. In Mexico, el
gabacho also identifies...
-
performing some
martial arts roles, he is at home as well in comedic, self-
deprecatory or
emotional characters. His second-most
common role in TVB has been...
-
threatened to take
action against them if they
released any 50 Cent
tracks deprecatory of
Murder Inc. The
conflict escalated when Ja Rule
released "Loose Change"...
-
sufficiently measured the
biases of the jury and that he had
exhibited a "
deprecatory and
often antagonistic attitude toward the defense." In 1974, author...
- or to
address oneself as "I". In
modern times, the
practice of self-
deprecatory terms is
still used. In
formal letters, the term 貴 (gwai; lit. important)...
-
resonance in Davies'
native Canada.
Shannon King
described this as a
deprecatory phrase indicating "a
quaint rummage bin of
colonial past". A
Voice from...
