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
Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.
From Time Magazine Archive
This the critics allow me, and while they like my wares, they may dispraise my writing.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
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
I do not remember another case in which he dispraised any book.
From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
GILES'S No man has been more splendidly applauded, and none more bitterly dispraised.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
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 Williams, Henry Llewellyn
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 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
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
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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