Antonym: praise. Similar words: praise, upraise, appraise, upraised, appraiser, in praise of, praiseworthy, sprain. Meaning: [dɪs'preɪz] 
n. the act of speaking contemptuously of.
n. the act of speaking contemptuously of. 
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1 He dispraised the film in a few words.
2 Father dispraised him severely.
3 Neither praise nor dispraise yourself; your actions serve the turn.
4 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.
5 Its starting - point is self - dispraise, and its great enemy is conceit.
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