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

The following is a curious instance.—The celebrated poet El-Mutanebbee, having written some verses in dispraise of Káfoor El-Ikhsheedee the independent Governor of Egypt, was obliged to flee, and hide himself in a distant town.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

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

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

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

At the same time as he dispraised himself--mocked and laughed--he let out glimpses of true ambition.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams

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

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

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

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