dispraise
Example Sentences
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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
Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel�like Stanford White*�and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history�and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration.
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
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