0 in a way that shows you think something is of little value or importance, or do not approve of it:
The teacher frowned deprecatingly at my needlework.
When he deprecatingly called his paintings his "daubs", nobody contradicted him.
He would say deprecatingly that he was ashamed of his profession.
"The nouvelle vague" in France was a rejection of what the new young cineastes deprecatingly called "le cinema de papa".
It was as if his whole happiness was contained in the tiny teapot at which he was frowning deprecatingly.
"Oh, it was nothing," she said deprecatingly.
