dispraise
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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
Not to bury the German Caesar but to dispraise each other, Russia and the Western Powers prepared to meet again.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Browning has outdone all other poets in this particular should be to his honor, not to his dispraise.
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
All is to be yielded up, save only the remembrance of God; all is to be dispraised, except His praise.
From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
An other cause moved me to procede, without shotyng the ordinaunce, whereat peradventure you will laugh: yet I judge not that it is to be dispraised.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres
Oh how some of those others who had stayed in the ships dispraised themselves, and blamed their captains because they had not helped them to a share in that honour.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara
Perhaps no Continental or American critic has ever yet dispraised a poetical fellow-countryman merely for urging the duties of national union and national defence.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
How he praised Pompey in public, dispraising him in private, at one and the same moment, has been declared.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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
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