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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispraise.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • β€˜He dispraises himself most unnecessarily in denying the prettiness of his language,’ said Clara.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • 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.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.

    Quotations 1919

  • So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.

    Quotations 1919

  • So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.

    Quotations 1919

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