(a.) Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

abusive back-biting belittling bitchy blackening blameful calumniatory calumnious catty censorious condemnatory contemptuous contumelious damnatory defamatory denunciatory deprecative depreciative depreciatory derisive derisory derogative derogatory detractory diffident disparaging execrating execrative execratory invective inveighing judgmental libelous minimizing objurgatory pejorative priggish reproachful reprobative reviling ridiculing scandalous scoffing scurrile scurrilous self-deprecating self-depreciating self-depreciative self-distrustful self-doubting self-effacing slanderous slighting unselfconfident unselfreliant vilifying vituperative