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单词 dispraise
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Definition of dispraise in English:

dispraise

noun dɪsˈpreɪzdɪsˈpreɪz
mass noun
  • Censure; criticism.

    〈罕〉责难;批评

    this engraving has on occasion elicited dispraise for Raphael

    这个雕刻有时会引起对拉斐尔的批评。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
    • This patriotic purpose is reinforced with dispraise of the current Italianized English fashion.
    • I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw.
    • It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
verb dɪsˈpreɪzdɪsˈpreɪz
[with object]archaic
  • Express censure or criticism of.

    〈罕〉责难;批评

    men cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge

    人们要表扬德莱顿就不得不批评柯尔律治。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
    • That may sound as though I'm intending to dispraise the book, but to the contrary; I think it's a fine piece of work in lots of ways.
    • ‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
    • Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.
    • There is another life story too, woven in with Isherwood's - that of his younger brother Richard, from the start dispraised in favour of the idolised Christopher.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French despreisier, based on late Latin depreciare (see depreciate).

Definition of dispraise in US English:

dispraise

noundɪsˈpreɪzdisˈprāz
  • Censure; criticism.

    〈罕〉责难;批评

    this engraving has on occasion elicited dispraise for Raphael

    这个雕刻有时会引起对拉斐尔的批评。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This patriotic purpose is reinforced with dispraise of the current Italianized English fashion.
    • It is a garment of dispraise left over for evil-doers in general.
    • I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw.
    • Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
verbdɪsˈpreɪzdisˈprāz
[with object]archaic
  • Express censure or criticism of (someone)

    〈古〉责难;批评(某人)

    men cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge

    人们要表扬德莱顿就不得不批评柯尔律治。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is another life story too, woven in with Isherwood's - that of his younger brother Richard, from the start dispraised in favour of the idolised Christopher.
    • Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function.
    • ‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
    • That may sound as though I'm intending to dispraise the book, but to the contrary; I think it's a fine piece of work in lots of ways.
    • Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French despreisier, based on late Latin depreciare (see depreciate).

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