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
These were all failures and received universal dispraise.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Nor can it be recorded, to their dispraise, that they were a terror to their enemies.
From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by Hosmer, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.