Definitions for dispraise

dispraise dis·praise

Spelling: [dis-preyz]
IPA: /dɪsˈpreɪz/

Dispraise is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 455 anagrams from letters in dispraise (adeiiprss).

Definitions for dispraise

noun

  1. an act or instance of dispraising; censure.

verb (used with object)

  1. to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.

Origin of dispraise

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French despreis(i)er, equivalent to des- dis-1 + preis(i)er to praise

Examples for dispraise

Far be it from me to write a word in dispraise of Alexander Wilson.

May I dispraise another's commodity to draw the buyer to my own?

Yet I own, it doth increase it, and not so only, but dispraise doth diminish it.

This the critics allow me, and while they like my wares, they may dispraise my writing.

She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook.

This book is not written in praise or dispraise of living men.

Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.

You do not know him as I do, Dovenald, or you would not breathe a word in his dispraise.

Memorize what Aesop said in praise of the tongue, and what he said in dispraise of it.

His modeling arouses tempests, either of dispraise or idolatry.

Word Value for dispraise
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Words with friends

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