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
Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thine actions serve the turn.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston
GILES'S No man has been more splendidly applauded, and none more bitterly dispraised.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised.
From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker
Say,—"have been censured;" or,—"have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage?
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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 A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 John Bunyan
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
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
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