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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dispraise .
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Examples
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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 W.B. Yeats 2000
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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 W.B. Yeats 2000
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They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Those who have highly dispraised it are Dilke, Richards (at first reading), Landor, L.
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They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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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
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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 2007
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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.
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To praise his faith which I would have dispraised.
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