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
There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Forbid it, ye muses all! that we should whisper a word in dispraise of Maro.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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 Lang, Andrew
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 Caius, John
Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise.
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
If in my praise I am moved with the good of my neighbour, why am I less moved if another be unjustly dispraised than if it be myself?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
The being commended or dispraised by our fellows may thus be called the sanction of Reputation, a power often surpassing in efficacy both the other sanctions.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
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 Canby, Henry Seidel
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 Gregory, Lady
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 Bunyan, John
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 Trollope, Anthony
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