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What does dispraise mean?

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  1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
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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.

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