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dispraise

[dis-preyz] / dɪsˈpreɪz /










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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

Not to bury the German Caesar but to dispraise each other, Russia and the Western Powers prepared to meet again.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the Rowans' backs were turned, and the Tappitts were alone together, others besides old Tappitt himself had words to say in dispraise of Luke.

From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised.

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Because, had he been unpraised, and these self-same men had dispraised him, and with dispraise and contempt told the very same things of him, I had never been so kindled and excited to love him.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

All thynges that maie be praised, maie be 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 Richard Rainolde

Oh how some of those others who had stayed in the ships dispraised themselves, and blamed their captains because they had not helped them to a share in that honour.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

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 John Caius

Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition.

From Time Magazine Archive

She answered that it was an idle saying suggested by Bassett's 'Praising the Lady Anne, and dispraising the Queen that now is.'

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

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 W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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 Anthony Trollope

So unable he is to praise without dispraising, that if he commends one man he must condemn a whole city or people.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch




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