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
There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel�like Stanford White*�and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
