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
Where there's no rivalry, there will be no dispraise.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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
All thynges that maie be praised, maie be dispraised.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
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 E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
All thynges that maie be seen, with the iye of man, tou- ched, or with any other sence apprehended: that maie be prai- sed, or dispraised.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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 William I. Thomas
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
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