Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By way of dispraise; with disapproval or some degree of reproach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By way of dispraise.
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- adverb By way of
dispraise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, Agalastes (speaking dispraisingly) sayeth, That there may be some wit in it, for aught he knows — but no judgment at all.
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Now, Agalastes (speaking dispraisingly) sayeth, That there may be some wit in it, for aught he knows — but no judgment at all.
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Not our great Imitator of Horace himself can have more Pleasure in writing his Verses than I have in reading them, tho 'I sometimes find myself there (as Shakespear terms it) dispraisingly 21.2 spoken of: 21.3 If he is a little free with me, I am generally in good Company, he is as blunt with my Betters; so that even here I might laugh in my turn.
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My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world; my heart's subdu'd When I have spoke of you dispraisingly, ft2 OTHELLO,
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1671: (When I haue spoke of you dispraisingly) 1672: Hath tane your part, to haue so much to do
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