: tending or serving to disparage or belittle someone or something
a deprecating remark
Allagash tells you, with a deprecating roll of his eyes, that Vicky is studying Philosophy at Princeton. Jay McInerney
There are little judgments on him throughout the text, sometimes mildly deprecating, sometimes robustly defensive.The Times Literary Supplement (London)
The letter hints that he is upset about something which has caused him to feel 'nervous and sad' and he ends by deprecatingly referring to himself as a 'dull pupil'. The Gloucestershire Echo