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

"They did n't dispraise what you done, did they?" broke in Billy.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.

From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler

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

They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised.

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker

So they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better: for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise.

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

Perhaps no Continental or American critic has ever yet dispraised a poetical fellow-countryman merely for urging the duties of national union and national defence.

From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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