dispraise

Example Sentences

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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

It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history�and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration.

From Time Magazine Archive

But praise and dispraise were all one to him before now, and we must go back and follow the tragedy of his personal history to its close.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney