dispraise

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

There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

All praise of civilisation, or art, or contrivance, is so much dispraise of nature; an admission of imperfection, which it is man's business, and merit, to be always endeavouring to correct or mitigate.*

From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant

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

All is to be yielded up, save only the remembrance of God; all is to be dispraised, except His praise.

From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The being commended or dispraised by our fellows may thus be called the sanction of Reputation, a power often surpassing in efficacy both the other sanctions.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

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

Say,—"have been censured;" or,—"have been blamed, decried, dispraised, or condemned."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Strange that learned and vulgar alike should repeat the fallacy in dispraising the preeminently popular art of our own times!

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby