dispraise
Example Sentences
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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
It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history�and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Names of this kind are sometimes given by the Arabs not in dispraise, but as prophetic of great achievements.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
