Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To express disapproval of; censure.
- noun Disapproval; censure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disparaging speech or opinion; animadversion; censure; reproach.
- noun Synonyms Disparagement, opprobrium.
- To speak disparagingly of; mention with disapprobation, or some degree of censure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.
- noun The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To notice with
disapprobation or some degree ofcensure ; todisparage , tocriticize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of speaking contemptuously of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only way to inveigle a Prince Edward Islander into saying anything in dispraise of his beloved Province is to praise it extravagantly to him.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917
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But where Buckley is more than usually bird-brained is that I can quote him at equal length in dispraise of Bobby, and I, too, can cry, "Is this the phrase that caught the madman’s eye and drove him to kill?"
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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THis parte of _Rhetorike_, which is called dispraise, is a in - uectiue Oracion, made againste the life of any man.
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My strategy for reviewing is to perceive the book in as precise a way as possible rather than to praise or dispraise.
Book Reviewing 2010
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He excused that in the best manner he could, he recorded, “& told him I did not think their company agreeable, as I had heard him say a good deal in dispraise of Indians.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He excused that in the best manner he could, he recorded, “& told him I did not think their company agreeable, as I had heard him say a good deal in dispraise of Indians.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He excused that in the best manner he could, he recorded, “& told him I did not think their company agreeable, as I had heard him say a good deal in dispraise of Indians.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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This is an admirably concise way of indicating why mere "praise or dispraise" cannot be the most important point of book reviewing/literary criticism.
Book Reviewing 2010
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That tongue that tells the story of thy daies,Making lascivious comments on thy sportCannot dispraise, but in a kinde of praise,Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.
Love in literature 2011
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He excused that in the best manner he could, he recorded, “& told him I did not think their company agreeable, as I had heard him say a good deal in dispraise of Indians.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
oroboros commented on the word dispraise
“People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.” --Somerset Maugham (Notebooks)
August 27, 2011