'deprecate' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe disapproving or belittling a person or thing. For example: "She depreciated his attempt to show her kindness."
Departments and ministries of non-English-speaking countries are lc, eg French ministry of the interior, Iraqi foreign ministry dependant noun; dependent adjective; dependence depositary person; depository place deprecate express disapproval; depreciate reduce in value.
The revolutionaries deprecate the application of the term "revolution" to their work; but a revolution does not cease to be a revolution when it is accomplished without loss of life; and this Siamese specimen is not difficult to classify and pigeon-hole.
Both deprecate the old-fashioned tribalism of the Tories and congratulate themselves for having discovered "grown-up politics" (by which they seem to mean two tribes ganging up on a third).
His shafts at the expense of the "long-haired" fraternity of theorists sometimes led formally trained scientists to deprecate him as anti-intellectual; yet he employed as his aides, at various times, a number of eminent mathematical physicists, such as Nikola Tesla and A.E. Kennelly.
It is easy today to deprecate the suddenness, the cataclysmic nature, the overall revolutionary effect of these two changes and to seek to subordinate results to longer, deeper tendencies of more gradual change in western Europe.
Philip II's very consciousness of his divinely imposed obligations, compounded by his almost pathological suspiciousness of the intentions and ambitions of other men, had led him to deprecate independent initiative by his ministers.
Self-deprecation is a part of it: but to self-deprecate you need to have a titanium-solid ego in the first place.
It's probably best, once it's clear that we've misinterpreted or embroidered reality, to apologize and to self-deprecate, perhaps jesting that we're on retainer with Facebook as an undercover operative.
Her instinct is to clown around and self-deprecate, which is consistently funny, but too often makes her fury the butt of the joke, rather than the sexism that provokes it.
And most significantly, he has taken on the bourgeois tendency to self-deprecate.
She can eviscerate ("Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up"), as well as self-deprecate ("I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them").
