dispraise
Americanverb (used with object)
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to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
noun
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an act or instance of dispraising; censure.
verb
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(tr) to express disapproval or condemnation of
noun
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the disapproval, etc, expressed
Other Word Forms
- dispraiser noun
- dispraisingly adverb
- self-dispraise noun
Etymology
Origin of dispraise
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French despreis ( i ) er, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + preis ( i ) er to praise
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
There was timid applause and jeering whistles, then more of both until praise and dispraise were about a standoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following is a curious instance.—The celebrated poet El-Mutanebbee, having written some verses in dispraise of Káfoor El-Ikhsheedee the independent Governor of Egypt, was obliged to flee, and hide himself in a distant town.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
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