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

She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

All thynges that maie be praised, maie be dispraised.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

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

These depend not at all in the necessity of the action praised or dispraised.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh

The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont.

From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler

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

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

Has it not been made by the sunlight and the sap?' and his dispraising houses decorated by himself: 'Do you suppose I like that kind of house?

From Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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

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