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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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 Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Neither do I discommend the lofty stile in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truely sublime that is not just and proper.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
Those need compassion whom you discommend, Not whom you praise.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
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