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

There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

He speaks of orders multiplying upon him, of especial praise received for proficiency in this style of work; not, we may suppose, from any who had much authority to praise or dispraise.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oh how some of those others who had stayed in the ships dispraised themselves, and blamed their captains because they had not helped them to a share in that honour.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Because, had he been unpraised, and these self-same men had dispraised him, and with dispraise and contempt told the very same things of him, I had never been so kindled and excited to love him.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

These depend not at all in the necessity of the action praised or dispraised.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh

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 Edward Dacres

Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise.

From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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