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Definition of dispraise in English: dispraisenoun dɪsˈpreɪzdɪsˈpreɪz mass nounCensure; criticism. this engraving has on occasion elicited dispraise for Raphael Example sentencesExamples - Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
- This patriotic purpose is reinforced with dispraise of the current Italianized English fashion.
- I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw.
- It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
verb dɪsˈpreɪzdɪsˈpreɪz [with object]archaic Express censure or criticism of. men cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge Example sentencesExamples - Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
- That may sound as though I'm intending to dispraise the book, but to the contrary; I think it's a fine piece of work in lots of ways.
- ‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
- Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.
- There is another life story too, woven in with Isherwood's - that of his younger brother Richard, from the start dispraised in favour of the idolised Christopher.
Origin Middle English: from Old French despreisier, based on late Latin depreciare (see depreciate). Definition of dispraise in US English: dispraisenoundɪsˈpreɪzdisˈprāz Censure; criticism. this engraving has on occasion elicited dispraise for Raphael Example sentencesExamples - This patriotic purpose is reinforced with dispraise of the current Italianized English fashion.
- It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
- I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw.
- Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
verbdɪsˈpreɪzdisˈprāz [with object]archaic Express censure or criticism of (someone) men cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge Example sentencesExamples - There is another life story too, woven in with Isherwood's - that of his younger brother Richard, from the start dispraised in favour of the idolised Christopher.
- Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
- ‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
- That may sound as though I'm intending to dispraise the book, but to the contrary; I think it's a fine piece of work in lots of ways.
- Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.
Origin Middle English: from Old French despreisier, based on late Latin depreciare (see depreciate). |