dyslogistic

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Your koulan there, with dyslogistic snort,

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  1. adjective Conveying censure.

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  • Your koulan there, with dyslogistic snort, —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • As the reader will perhaps see, from the tenor of my discourse, I would find it difficult to say whether I should give them a good name or a bad -- to speak more scientifically, and of course more clearly, whether I should characterise them by a predicate eulogistic, or a predicate dyslogistic. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • a dyslogistic term, partly because all myths are lies, but still more because some of them are ignoble lies. —  The Idea of God in Early Religions
  • Showing the several species of pleasures and pains of which man's nature is susceptible; together with the several species of _interests_, _desires_ and _motives_ respectively corresponding to them; and the several sets of appellatives, _neutral_, _eulogistic_, and _dyslogistic_, by which each species of _motive_ is wont to be designated. —  Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy. —  Rational Review
 

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  1. dys- + (eu)logistic.

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  1. from dyslogy + -istic (after eulogistic, from eulogy). Cf. Greek δυσλόγισ, σ1τος, hard to compute, also ill-calculating, misguided.
 

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/dɪsləˈdʒɪstɪk/
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