dispraising

Approbation and modesty are ultimately complementary aspects of an underlying principle of appreciation: minimize the expression of beliefs which appreciate self over other (i.e. by praising self or dispraising other); maximise the expression of beliefs which appreciate other over self (i.e. by dispraising self or praising other).

Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

Approbation and modesty are ultimately complementary aspects of an underlying principle of appreciation: minimize the expression of beliefs which appreciate self over other (i.e. by praising self or dispraising other); maximise the expression of beliefs which appreciate other over self (i.e. by dispraising self or praising other).

Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Isengrim the wolf when the Author is debarred the higher enjoyment of praising them or dispraising them by name.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And a complete and utter dispraising of the ideology involved, and those who tout it.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: 1000 Days 2006

So unable he is to praise without dispraising, that if he commends one man he must condemn a whole city or people.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

There was the necessity of looking after Brooke, and scolding him, and of praising him to Martha, and of dispraising him, and of seeing that he had enough to eat, and of watching whether he smoked in the house, and of quarrelling with him about everything under the sun, which together so employed Miss Stanbury that she satisfied herself with glances at Dorothy which were felt to be full of charges of ingratitude.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

First truly I note, not onely in these mysomousoi, Poet-haters, but in all that kind of people who seek a praise, by dispraising others, that they do prodigally spend a great many wandring words in quips and scoffes, carping and taunting at each thing, which by sturring the spleene, may staie the brain from a th [o] rough beholding the worthinesse of the subject.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Yet they're superstitious beyond belief, even to the extent of dispraising those things they value most, to avert jealous evil spirits, and believing that when a man is dying you must stuff his mouth with food at the last minute - mind you, that may be because they're the most amazing gluttons, and drunkards, too.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

First truly I note, not only in these _mysomousoi_ poet-haters, but in all that kind of people, who seek a praise by dispraising others, that they do prodigally spend a great many wandering words, in quips, and scoffs; carping and taunting at each thing, which, by stirring the spleen, may stay the brain from a through beholding the worthiness of the subject.

English literary criticism Various

Plutarch has related respecting one of them of the name of Antiphon, who wrote a tragedy by which Dionysius the tyrant obtained a prize, long after he had put the author to death for dispraising his compositions.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3