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

Not to bury the German Caesar but to dispraise each other, Russia and the Western Powers prepared to meet again.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He had good reasons for saying so, and you need not reproach him, for speaking in your dispraise to our general and myself."

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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

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

At the same time as he dispraised himself--mocked and laughed--he let out glimpses of true ambition.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 William I. Thomas

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