cast aspersions vs deprecate

cast aspersions

verb
  • To make damaging or spiteful remarks. 

deprecate

verb
  • To belittle or express disapproval of. 

  • To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced. 

How often have the words cast aspersions and deprecate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )