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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

These were all failures and received universal dispraise.

From Time Magazine Archive

This the critics allow me, and while they like my wares, they may dispraise my writing.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles