Definition of "dispraise" [dis•praise]

• To express disapproval of; censure. (verb-transitive)
• Disapproval; censure. (noun)

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• "The only way to inveigle a Prince Edward Islander into saying anything in dispraise of his beloved Province is to praise it extravagantly to him."
• "But where Buckley is more than usually bird-brained is that I can quote him at equal length in dispraise of Bobby, and I, too, can cry, "Is this the phrase that caught the madman’s eye and drove him to kill?""
• "THis parte of _Rhetorike_, which is called dispraise, is a in - uectiue Oracion, made againste the life of any man."