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
Not to bury the German Caesar but to dispraise each other, Russia and the Western Powers prepared to meet again.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That Browning has outdone all other poets in this particular should be to his honor, not to his dispraise.
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
All thynges that maie be praised, maie be dispraised.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
GILES'S No man has been more splendidly applauded, and none more bitterly dispraised.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
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
Say,—"have been censured;" or,—"have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Yong befe in this case a litle poudered is not to be dispraised, nor new egges & good milke.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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 W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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