† dispraiseworthyadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Worthy or deserving of dispraise; blameworthy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > worthy of dispraise
dispraisablec1449
discommendablea1477
dispraiseworthy1556
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties iii. f. 131 If they be dispraisworthie, who haue helde their peas: what is to bee thought of those who haue vsed a vainnesse of talke?
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