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
Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they went to a ball and he danced three times with the same lady, he knew he would hear something in faint dispraise.
From A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame
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
I do not remember another case in which he dispraised any book.
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
A schoolmaster who has boarders is a hotel-keeper, and thereby makes his income, but he need not keep a hotel which would be dispraised in guide books.
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
So unable he is to praise without dispraising, that if he commends one man he must condemn a whole city or people.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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
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
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
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