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Deploration
- - The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Deplumating
- verb - strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
Deplumation
- - The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Deportation
- noun - the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
- the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
Depravation
- noun - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Depravities
- noun - a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society"
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Deprecating
- verb - belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
- express strong disapproval of; deplore
- tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
Deprecation
- noun - a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
Deprecative
- adjective - given to expressing disapproval
- tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
Deprecatory
- adjective - tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"