discommend
Americanverb (used with object)
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to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
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to bring into disfavor.
He was discommended for his negligence.
verb
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rare to express disapproval of
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obsolete to bring into disfavour
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Origin of discommend
Example Sentences
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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 Cyril Brett
Neither do I discommend the lofty style in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truly sublime, that is not just and proper.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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
This threat is to the fools, that squeam At every thing of good esteem; And that they may to taste pretend, Ev’n heaven itself will discommend.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
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