dispraise
[dɪs'prez]
vt. 贬低, 谤, 贬损, 指责

n. 谤, 指责

1. Its starting-point is self-dispraise, and its great enemy is conceit.
   其点自贬,其敌自.
2. Their censure did not much affect him, for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraise of others.
   非议使气，位，总非常谦虚，愿意接受别评。
3. Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue which she hath praised him with above compare so many thousand times?
   她希望背弃盟誓；她千次夸奖丈，谁都，却又舌头坏话！

dispraise
[ noun ]
the act of speaking contemptuously of
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Dispraise \Dis*praise"\, n. [Cf. OF. despris. See {Dispraise},
v. t.]
The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach;
disparagement. --Dryden.

In praise and in dispraise the same. --Tennyson.


Dispraise \Dis*praise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispraised}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dispraising}.] [OE. dispreisen, OF. desprisier,
despreisier, F. d['e]priser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + prisier,
F. priser, to prize, praise. See {Praise}, and cf.
{Disprize}, {Depreciate}.]
To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or
some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.

Dispraising the power of his adversaries. --Chaucer.

I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked
might not fall in love with him. --Shak.