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单词 deprecate
释义
deprecate
verb
formal
uk
/ˈdep.rə.keɪt/us
/ˈdep.rə.keɪt/

deprecateverb(NOT APPROVE)

[Tnot continuous]
to notapproveof something or say that you do notapproveof something:
反对，不赞成
We deprecate this use ofcompanyfundsforpoliticalpurposes.我们反对这种将公司资金用于政治目的的做法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disapproving & criticizing
  • anathematize
  • animadversion
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • aw
  • backbite
  • criticism
  • dim
  • fault
  • niggle
  • nitpick
  • nitpicking
  • opprobrious
  • peanut gallery
  • people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesidiom
  • personalization
  • personalize
  • philippic
  • sarky
  • tear
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deprecateverb(NOT VALUE)

[T]
to say that youthinksomething is of littlevalueorimportance:
贬低，轻视
He always deprecates myachievements.他总是贬低我的成就。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
  • blow
  • blowsomething/someoneoff
  • brushsomeone/somethingaside
  • chopped liver
  • damn
  • denigrate
  • denigration
  • front
  • laugh
  • laughsomethingoff
  • leavesomethingat the dooridiom
  • look down onsomeone
  • minoritize
  • never
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • skate over/aroundsomething
  • sniff atsomething
  • sweepsomethingaside
  • wave
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deprecation
(Definition ofdeprecatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeprecate

deprecate
Had they not given such a service, they would have disappeared long ago and their forcible removal is to be deprecated.
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I also think that the growing habit of reading speeches should be deprecated.
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Most railwaymen deplore these thefts and their trade unions have also deprecated them.
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There is an unreal and artificial division, and one which ought to be deprecated.
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However, that does not stop me making the point that drafting legislation in such a manner is to be deprecated.
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One might rather say he deprecated it as being ill-advised and hasty, regretting that it should now be introduced.
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I have expressly deprecated any suggestion that any of the firms made certain demands because of political reasons.
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If that is the attitude of those responsible for supplying standby vessels offshore, it should be deprecated.
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All this is to be deprecated, even if one is going to save a matter of hours on a trans-continental flight.
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Is it not the case that progressive opinion in this country strongly deprecates this type of victimisation?
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I think the ingratitude of some of those whom he placed in that fortunate position is very much to be deprecated.
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I have all along deprecated the use of exaggerated language or florid phrases from the lips of temperance reformers.
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The reading of newspapers is deprecated other than in the circumstances mentioned.
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Comparisons have been deprecated, but the whole of our naval preparations depend on comparisons with other countries.
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I think upon a question involving a great constitutional change that is very much to be deprecated.
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