Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function. |
Also noteworthy was that he did not find it necessary to dispraise his predecessor, as both Khrushchev and Brezhnev had done. |
Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. |
I find I write more in dispraise than praise, which I think may be a character flaw. |
May I dispraise another's commodity to draw the buyer to my own? |
Of course, once western culture could be a term of praise, it was bound to become a term of dispraise, too. |