dispraise
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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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
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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
Doubtless there was a time when American books were hardly read outside of America, though Whitman received both encouragement and puzzled dispraise from England, and Mark Twain's royal reception there is a matter of record.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that Essay of the way of writing Epistles, Erasmus had put in two sorts of Declamations, one in the praise, the other in dispraise, of Matrimony, and asking his young Pupil Ld.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
Yong befe in this case a litle poudered is not to be dispraised, nor new egges & good milke.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John
All thynges that maie be seen, with the iye of man, tou- ched, or with any other sence apprehended: that maie be prai- sed, or 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 Rainolde, Richard
Perhaps no Continental or American critic has ever yet dispraised a poetical fellow-countryman merely for urging the duties of national union and national defence.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
Gray, though a most scholarly poet, has always pleased the vulgar rather than the critics, and he had the singular fate of being dispraised both by Johnson and by Wordsworth.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
I do not remember another case in which he dispraised any book.
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
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.
Strange that learned and vulgar alike should repeat the fallacy in dispraising the preeminently popular art of our own times!
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
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