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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Names of this kind are sometimes given by the Arabs not in dispraise, but as prophetic of great achievements.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
Say,—"have been censured;" or,—"have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
At the same time as he dispraised himself--mocked and laughed--he let out glimpses of true ambition.
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams
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
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
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
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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
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
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