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• v  express strong disapproval of; deplore
• v  belittle
  The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts

• A coach should encourage not deprecate a sportsperson's efforts.
• Valerie strongly deprecated the utterances of her secretary and apologized to those who were hurt by his words.
• When the Minister hastily deprecated the partisan attitude of the opposition, he did not anticipate the political storm it would raise.

• depreciate
• vilipend

News & Articles

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• NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel
  An anonymous reader writes "NFTables is queued up for merging into the Linux 3.13 kernel. NFTables is a four-year-old project by the creators of Netfilter to write a new packet filtering / firewall engine for the Linux kernel to deprecate iptables (though it now offers an iptables compatibility layer too). NFTables promises to be more powerful, simpler, reduce code complication, improve error ...
  Oct. 20, 2013 - Slashdot

Quotes

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• Frederick Douglass in Socialist Worker Online
  Frederick Douglass said: "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its mighty...
• Chris Bryant in The Christian Institute
  But Mr Bryant told the Commons: "The reference to the Crusades is not lost to some people which, of course, anybody involved in the Red Cross would wholly deprecate. The truth of the matter is that it has been difficult in some places for us to...
• Chatterjee in Sify
  Immediately, Chatterjee said: "The derogatory remarks have been expunged and I deprecate such unparliamentary acts."