deprecating

(s) tending to diminish or disparage
- belittling comments
- managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
- deprecatory remarks about the book
- a slighting remark
belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative, depreciatory,

Synonyms

belittling deprecative deprecatory slighting depreciative depreciatory

Words of close approximity

deprecation deprecative