discommend
Example Sentences
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Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.
From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry
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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
