"deprecated by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something has been officially disapproved or no longer accepted. For example, you could say, "The old procedure was deprecated by the governing council, so we have to find a new one."
The fifties poems were praised by men and, later, deprecated by Rich, in much the same terms; her "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" finds a new candor but hews to the period, confessional style.
There may have been scope for such originality, especially in his approach to the liberal arts, traditionally neglected or even deprecated by Epicureans.
The first of these was the one deprecated by Watson and Crick on the basis that the model violates permissible van der Waals contacts.
Eulogized by Rush Limbaugh, and deprecated by Bill Clinton, the post-9/11 drama shadowed the fictitious U.S. counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer and his stop-at-nothing approach against terrorism.
At the onset of ecology, it was felt that the new science should be better formulized, with the identification of "rules" that were more than the simple "story telling" that was so deprecated by Elton (1927).
Using the earlier sense of words like "gay" that have been deprecated by their slang meanings.
Don't self-deprecate by saying you're not good at something, or acting as though your success was just lucky.
Dell have confirmed (via Facebook) that everyone's favourite phone-that-thought-it-was-a-tablet will receive the update to (the soon to be deprecated) Froyo by the end of this month.
Mr. Brener deprecated an escort by saying she "looks like a butcher, in my opinion".
In particular the variables referring to the energy parameters are now deprecated and replaced by additional functions or parameters which have to be passed to functions.
It is these moments, and not the 'elaborate apparatus' Forster deprecated, that are the means by which novels can be complicated and passionate".
