How To Use Dispraise In A Sentence
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Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled.
His Disposition
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My noble Emperor generously offers me the right of naming what he calls my recompense; but let not his generosity be dispraised, although it is from you, my lord, and not from his Imperial
Count Robert of Paris
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This appreciation is a subsidiary requirement of tact, such acts of praise or dispraise functioning as expressions of beliefs which imply costs or benefits in terms of recognition of relative status.
Archive 2008-09-01
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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.
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My noble Emperor generously offers me the right of naming what he calls my recompense; but let not his generosity be dispraised, although it is from you, my lord, and not from his Imperial
Count Robert of Paris
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Fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was helping at the foundation of the Irish Literary Society in London, we were violently disparaged by newspapers and private persons for having praised Oliver Cromwell and the Danes, while we dispraised Thomas Davis.
Later Articles and Reviews
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Johnson, who, as we have before remarked, rarely praised or dispraised things by halves, broke forth in a warm eulogy of the author and the work, in a conversation with Boswell, to the great astonishment of the latter.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.
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But when — not the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, nor he blessed who doth ungodlily, but — a man is praised for some gift which Thou hast given him, and he rejoices more at the praise for himself than that he hath the gift for which he is praised, he also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; better is he who praised than he who is praised.
The Confessions
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I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw.
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Those who have highly dispraised it are Dilke, Richards (at first reading), Landor, L.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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This patriotic purpose is reinforced with dispraise of the current Italianized English fashion.
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The earliest extant version of this essay has ‘picked holes in’ for both ‘dispraised’ and ‘found certain flaws in’ NLI Ms 30493, SUNY-SB Box 18.
Later Articles and Reviews
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‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
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But whennot the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, 95 nor he blessed who doth ungodlily, 96 buta man is praised for some gift which Thou hast given him, and he rejoices more at the praise for himself than that he hath the gift for which he is praised, he also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; and better is he who praised than he who is praised.
The Tenth Book
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Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
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He dispraised the film in a few words.
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They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable.
Wildfire
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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.
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It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
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Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
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Father dispraised him severely.
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Its starting - point is self - dispraise, and its great enemy is conceit.
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I am contented with my fortunes, spectator e longinquo, and love Neptunum procul a terra spectare furentem: he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what [3944] gets he by it? to have all his life laid open, his reproaches seen: not one of a thousand but he hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion than commendation; no better means to help this than to be private.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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They have dreamt of each other in their quiet dreams, these children, and their little hearts have been nearly broken when the absent one has been dispraised in jest.
Sketches by Boz
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Even commendation itself is often used calumniously, with intent to breed dislike and ill-will towards a person commended in envious or jealous ears; or so as to give passage to dispraises, and render the accusations following more credible.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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To praise his faith which I would have dispraised.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
