How To Use dispraise In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- To praise his faith which I would have dispraised. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Its starting - point is self - dispraise, and its great enemy is conceit.
- Father dispraised him severely.
- Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
- It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
