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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dispraise .
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Examples
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Despite the fact that you're "in it for the writing", you find it deeply irksome that the top hit on your name -- Kevin W. Reardon -- is that LiveJournal post in which this Steve Berman dispraises your story.
How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009
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Despite the fact that you're "in it for the writing", you find it deeply irksome that the top hit on your name -- Kevin W. Reardon -- is that LiveJournal post in which this Steve Berman dispraises your story.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.
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βHe dispraises himself most unnecessarily in denying the prettiness of his language,β said Clara.
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Even commendation itself is often used calumniously, with intent to breed dislike and ill-will towards a person commended in envious or jealous ears; or so as to give passage to dispraises, and render the accusations following more credible.
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As with Hercules, so with the physical activity he represents, -- no one dispraises, if few practise it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Lord's supper, 1 Cor.xi. 17, &c. In these and all such divine discommendings of the churches for their corruptions, all succeeding churches are strongly forbidden the like corruptions: God's dispraises are divine prohibitions.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Quotations 1919
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So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Quotations 1919
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So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Quotations 1919
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