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

Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, I venture on remarking that the doctrine of Evolution has acquired both praise and dispraise which it does not deserve.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

All thynges that maie be seen, with the iye of man, tou- ched, or with any other sence apprehended: that maie be prai- sed, or 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

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

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 A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

All is to be yielded up, save only the remembrance of God; all is to be dispraised, except His praise.

From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Say,—"have been censured;" or,—"have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Praising one's self and dispraising an antagonist creates a confidence and a mental superiority in the way of confidence.

From Sex and Society by William I. Thomas

She answered that it was an idle saying suggested by Bassett's 'Praising the Lady Anne, and dispraising the Queen that now is.'

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

What hath this man done now, but lied in the dispraising of his bargain? and why did he dispraise it, but of a covetous mind to wrong and beguile the seller?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan