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
These were all failures and received universal dispraise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Minola, with all her real or fancied delight in noting the jealousies and weaknesses of men and women, could hear no words of detraction or even dispraise.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
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 Dacres, Edward
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)
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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 Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Thomas, William I.
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
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
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