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It is ironic how the American Art World puts everything outside itself in deprecating categories, especially Ethnic Art, yet what could be more ethnic than it?

July 2008 2008

You will also recall deprecating my lack of rigour in writing comments on a blog without what might be considered the apparatus appropriate to a scholarly monograph (that is, citations for every borrowing or quote).

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else.

February 2004 2004

Fresh Prince of Bellaire, including the exact same wardrobe and throw in some dope self deprecating rhymes with a thumping beat and I'm sold.

Hypebeast 2008

Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"?

languagehat.com: NO USE WHATEVER. 2005

"I suppose I have been a very bad boy," said he, with a kind of deprecating smile, as though he did not believe more than one half he said.

In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859

If I were in a better frame of mine I could probably be far more self deprecating.

Confessions of a literary fraud « Write Anything 2009

Very few of us find it easy to talk about ourselves in anything other than an aw shucks, self-deprecating way.

Hiding Behind Your Words « Write Anything 2010

In that formula, the first 85 or 90 percent of your remarks are supposed to be funny -- biting, a little bipartisan, and significantly self-deprecating.

Sen. Chris Coons: The Alternate Ending to My Congressional Correspondents Dinner Speech Sen. Chris Coons 2011

There was just something about that line, and I suppose the self-deprecating sense of humor that he portrayed; and I thought there's my voice.

An interview with Michael Robotham 2010