discommend
Example Sentences
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Tho' such myself, vile bards I discommend; Nay more, tho' gentle Damon is my friend.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
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 Dryden, John
The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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
