deprecatingly
C2
adv
Freq #770049
Meanings
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1
adv
In a deprecating manner.
Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
Etymology
From deprecating + -ly.