dispraise

Example Sentences

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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

Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel�like Stanford White*�and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that Essay of the way of writing Epistles, Erasmus had put in two sorts of Declamations, one in the praise, the other in dispraise, of Matrimony, and asking his young Pupil Ld.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew