dispraise

Of course, once western culture could be a term of praise, it was bound to become a term of dispraise, too.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2016

Idle, I suppose, to dispraise the Grizzlies for not being AC/DC—but put that next to I’m hot/ And when I’m not/ I’m cold as ice and tell me how you feel.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012

Jackson has thought deeply about bereavement, and it seems shabby to dispraise a book so acutely observed, and seemingly as lacking in novelistic calculation as it is lacking in novelistic ambition.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2010

Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now many men do Tom Long dispraise, Saying, "He has small conscience in his ways, But sure I'll lay no such fault to his charge; I rather think his conscience was too large."

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

Yong befe in this case a litle poudered is not to be dispraised, nor new egges & good milke.

From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius

Gray, though a most scholarly poet, has always pleased the vulgar rather than the critics, and he had the singular fate of being dispraised both by Johnson and by Wordsworth.

From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

All thynges that maie be seen, with the iye of man, tou- ched, or with any other sence apprehended: that maie be prai- sed, or dispraised.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised.

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker

It is the only thing not disproved, not dispraised, not disgraced, by a candid study of the Ladies of the Idyll.

From The Spirit of Place and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.

From Time Magazine Archive

What hath this man done now, but lied in the dispraising of his bargain? and why did he dispraise it, but of a covetous mind to wrong and beguile the seller?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Has it not been made by the sunlight and the sap?' and his dispraising houses decorated by himself: 'Do you suppose I like that kind of house?

From Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

I will make a dispraising of the province of Munster They do not leave the floor to us; It isn't in them to twist even a sugaun; The province of Munster without nicety, without prosperity.

From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory

Strange that learned and vulgar alike should repeat the fallacy in dispraising the preeminently popular art of our own times!

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby