Tending to diminish or disparage:
— Deprecatory remarks about the book.

synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting.

Roget 766: deprecatory, expostulatory^†, intercessory, mediatorial^†.    deprecated, protested.    unsought, unbesought^†; unasked etc. (ask) etc. 765.    ... show more

Roget 934: detracting etc. v.; defamatory, detractory^†, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory^†; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical.    critical etc. 932.    ... show more