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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

Lavish in dispraise of things American, this musical gives vent to the pent-up yowls of a generation that was overprivileged, overindulged and woefully underdisciplined.

From Time Magazine Archive

He speaks of orders multiplying upon him, of especial praise received for proficiency in this style of work; not, we may suppose, from any who had much authority to praise or dispraise.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles




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