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
These were all failures and received universal dispraise.
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)
So they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better: for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
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 Dacres, Edward
Nine days later Pace found the King reading a new book of Luther's, "which he dispraised"; and he took the opportunity to show Henry Leo's bull against the Reformer.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
I do not remember another case in which he dispraised any book.
From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew
If in my praise I am moved with the good of my neighbour, why am I less moved if another be unjustly dispraised than if it be myself?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
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 Trollope, Anthony
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
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
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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