- was once a
general term for
black people in English, "formerly
without depreciatory force" as the
Oxford English Dictionary puts it. The
style is now viewed...
- the term as "offensive". The OED has "its use is now
widely seen as
depreciatory or offensive",
referring to
English Today no. 39 (1992): "The term Mohammedan...
- bull**** that
exists in a workplace. The word is
generally used in a
depreciatory sense, but it may
imply a
measure of
respect for
language skills or frivolity...
- him,
Chamberlain was
angered by the "short, cold and for the most part
depreciatory"
press comments on his retirement,
according to him
written "without...
-
about to be
thrown away. When
referring to persons, it is
slightly depreciatory, used
especially for inferior, sick,
incompetent or weak
persons (the...
- DEP.****),
dependent clause marking (use SJV) DEPO
deportmentive DEPR
depreciatory,
deprecative DER
DERIV derivation,
derivational morpheme (e.g. ADJ.DER...
-
Kremmerz is "sacred materialism",
which should not be
confused with the
depreciatory meaning given to the word “materialism” as much by
economic doctrines...
- auditor's
report in
deciding to sell; the loss
would be
referable to the
depreciatory effect of the
report on the
market value of the
shares before ever the...
- the way
society views people who
collect waste informally is
often depreciatory: with the
exception of a few
cases of
people doing it for scientific...
- with the
title The
Mixture as Before. This of
course was
meant in a
depreciatory sense, but I did not take it as such.... The
writer has his
special communication...
