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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Conveying censure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Conveying censure, disapproval, or opprobrium; censorious; opprobrious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Expressing censure or disapproval

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. expressing disapproval

Etymologies

  1. From dys- + -logistic, on the model of eulogistic. (Wiktionary)
  2. dys- + (eu)logistic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Mischievous fallacies also circulate from the convertible use of what Mr.B. is pleased to call dyslogistic and eulogistic terms.”

    Fallacies of Anti-Reformers

  • “C.S. Lewis, on criticism, remarked, "Keep a strict eye on eulogistic and dyslogistic adjectives — they should diagnose (not merely blame) and distinguish (not merely praise.)" jon on Apr 25, 2008”

    Rant: Did Batman and Robin Really Screw Things Up THAT Much? « FirstShowing.net

  • “Jingo is neither a pejorative, which is to say derogatory or dyslogistic, nor is it a blasphemous term.”

    Ted Kennedy, Workhorse Lawmaker - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState

  • “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

  • “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

  • “In the same manner the dyslogistic and eulogistic fallacies are used in the case of reform.”

    Fallacies of Anti-Reformers

  • “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

  • “Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived.”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3

  • “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

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