dispraise

present singular third person dispraises · participle present dispraising · participle past dispraised · past dispraised

1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.

   Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.

   2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 9

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   They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts

   Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.

   1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

   "What," thought Edward, "the poet says in praise of one beauty, I say in dispraise of another: 'Her eyes, like suns, the rash beholder strike, But, like the sun, they shine on all alike.'

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310

   He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.

   1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 157

   Synonyms: censure, find fault, denigrate, downplay, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out

plural dispraises

1. countableuncountableBlame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.

   Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.

   1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 60

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   Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.

   1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 42, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

   Synonyms: censure, disapprobation, reprehension, attainder, attainture, attaintment, blame, censure