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
Having said this, I have said all that can be said in dispraise of the vessel.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise.
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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
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 Rainolde, Richard
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Gregory, Lady
Praising one's self and dispraising an antagonist creates a confidence and a mental superiority in the way of confidence.
From Sex and Society by Thomas, William I.
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 Trollope, Anthony
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 Bunyan, John
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