dispraise
verb (used with object)
to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
self-dispraise
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a word derived from
dispraise.
Example Sentences
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True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
If I prefer remaining my poor self, I say so not in self-dispraise but praise.
From Men and Women by Charlotte Endymion Porter
