verb
- Pay no attention to, disrespect.
- usage: "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"
- synonyms: slight, cold-shoulder
adjective
- Tending to diminish or disparage.
- usage: "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
- synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory
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