discommend
Example Sentences
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Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert
The flatterer is blear-eyed to ill, and cannot see vices; and his tongue walks ever in one track of unjust praises, and can no more tell how to discommend than to speak true.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
I passe not I how men affected be, Nor who commend, or discommend my verse; It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse, And in my lynes if shee my loue may see.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril
Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
