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
Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They did n't dispraise what you done, did they?" broke in Billy.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
