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

Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.

From Time Magazine Archive

"They did n't dispraise what you done, did they?" broke in Billy.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

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

An other cause moved me to procede, without shotyng the ordinaunce, whereat peradventure you will laugh: yet I judge not that it is to be dispraised.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres

A schoolmaster who has boarders is a hotel-keeper, and thereby makes his income, but he need not keep a hotel which would be dispraised in guide books. 

From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

Oh how some of those others who had stayed in the ships dispraised themselves, and blamed their captains because they had not helped them to a share in that honour.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

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

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

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

She answered that it was an idle saying suggested by Bassett's 'Praising the Lady Anne, and dispraising the Queen that now is.'

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone