discommend
Example Sentences
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Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert
The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Heaven forbid that I should discommend The gratis, charitable, jail-endeavor!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
