dispraise
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of dispraise
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French despreis ( i ) er, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + preis ( i ) er to praise
Vocabulary lists containing dispraise
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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
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
Minola, with all her real or fancied delight in noting the jealousies and weaknesses of men and women, could hear no words of detraction or even dispraise.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
All is to be yielded up, save only the remembrance of God; all is to be dispraised, except His praise.
From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
So they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better: for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
If in my praise I am moved with the good of my neighbour, why am I less moved if another be unjustly dispraised than if it be myself?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
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 Dacres, Edward
A schoolmaster who has boarders is a hotel-keeper, and thereby makes his income, but he need not keep a hotel which would be dispraised in guide books.
From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew
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 Bunyan, John
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 Trollope, Anthony
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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 Thomas, William I.
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