The amusements they approve cannot, in many cases, be compared with those which they deprecate, either in elegance, profit, or the amount of intelligence they require. "Amusement: A Force in Christian Training" by Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.

Monsignor Masterman began to deprecate the self- accusation of the other. "Dawn of All" by Robert Hugh Benson

They probably deprecate his table- manners, but they just love his politics. "Uller Uprising" by Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr