dispraise
Example Sentences
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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
Lavish in dispraise of things American, this musical gives vent to the pent-up yowls of a generation that was overprivileged, overindulged and woefully underdisciplined.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this account an Andalusian cavalry lieutenant, while saying something in her praise and dispraise in a game of forfeits, recently declared, "You are very charming, but your roundness is alarming."
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
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