Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conveying censure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conveying censure, disapproval, or opprobrium; censorious; opprobrious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to
eulogistic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Expressing
censure ordisapproval
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressing disapproval
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mischievous fallacies also circulate from the convertible use of what Mr.B. is pleased to call dyslogistic and eulogistic terms.
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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 2008
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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 2009
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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 John Hill Burton
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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 Robert Ezra Park 1926
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In the same manner the dyslogistic and eulogistic fallacies are used in the case of reform.
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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 2009
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Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived.
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a dyslogistic term, partly because all myths are lies, but still more because some of them are ignoble lies.
slumry commented on the word dyslogistic
In contrast to eulogistic.
August 11, 2007