discommend
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The flatterer is blear-eyed to ill, and cannot see vices; and his tongue walks ever in one track of unjust praises, and can no more tell how to discommend than to speak true.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
Some vse to bare trees rootes in Winter, to stay the setting til hotter seasons, which I discommend, because, 1.
From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson
Tho' such myself, vile bards I discommend; Nay more, tho' gentle Damon is my friend.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young
There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
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