Dispraise

Definition: Dispraise

Dispraise

Noun

1. The act of speaking contemptuously of.

Date "dispraise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Dispraise

Synonym: disparagement (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Dispraise, discommendation; blame, censure, obloquy; detraction; disparagement, depreciation; denunciation; condemnation; ostracism; black list.
	Dispraise, discommend, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn; (find guilty).
Disrespect	Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather.
	Noun: disrespect, disesteem, disestimation; disparagement; (dispraise), (detraction).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dispraise

English words defined with "dispraise": Dispraised, Dispraising, Dispraisingly. (references)

Etymologies containing "dispraise": Disprize. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Peter in Matthew: Discipleship, Diplomacy, and Dispraise...With an Assessment of Power and Privilege in the Petrine Office (Good News Studies) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "dispraise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dënim (adjudication, castigation, censure, condemnation, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, discipline, doom, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalty, proscription, punishment, rap, recompense, sentence, strafe, what for), sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, damn, dressing down, embroilment, invective, lashing, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, vituperation, wigging), mosaprovim (discouragement), kundërshtim (censure, challenge, contradiction, contrast, demur, demurrer, deprecation, exception, kick, objection, obtestation, opposition, protest, reaction, rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, retort, return, set down, Stonewall, stonewalling). (various references)

Arabic		‏قدح (glass, goblet, invective, libel, percuss, slander, slur, snap, tumbler, vituperate, vituperation), ‏ذم (asperse, blacken, blackguard, disparage, disparagement, invective, slur, vilify, vituperate, vituperation). (various references)

Bulgarian		пренебрежение (depreciation, disregard, flout, slight), порицание (animadversion, castigation, censure, decrial, imputation, rebuke, reflection, reprehension, reprimand, reprobation, reproof, stricture), подценяване (disparagement, underestimation, undervaluation). (various references)

Czech		podceòovat (belittle, depreciate, disparage, minimize, misprise, misprize). (various references)

French		dénigrer (disparage), dénigrement (disparagement). (various references)

German		tadeln (castigate, censure, chide, criticize, fault, lecture, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproaches, reproval, reprove, to blame, vituperate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'� ות (censure, condemn, damn, defame, denounce, disapprove, impute, put to shame, score, thumbs down). (various references)

Hungarian		lekicsinyel (disdain, minimize, to depreciate, to disparage, to minimize, to scorn, to underrate), lebecsülés (depreciation, detraction, disesteem, disparagement), lebecsül (despise, disesteem, disparage, misjudge, play down, to despise, to detract, to disparage, to extenuate, to make orts of sg, to underrate, underestimate). (various references)

Manx		jeh-voylley (censure, discommend, dishonour). (various references)

Pig Latin		ispraiseday

Romanian		dispreţui (brave, contemn, despise, disdain, hold cheap, hold smb. in contempt, look down on, pooh pooh, scorn, set at naught, slight, spurn, trample, turn up one's nose at, undervalue), dezaproba (censure, condemn, deprecate, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, discommend, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, reject, reprobate), subaprecia (disparage, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), blama (blame, censure, condemn, reprehend). (various references)

Russian		осуждение (censure, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, reprobation), неодобрение (deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, objection), порицание (animadversion, blame, censure, decrial, reflection, reflexion, reprehension, reprobation). (various references)

Spanish		desaprobar (condemn, criticize, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discountenance, discourage, frown, negative, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold), censurar (animadvert, blame, blue pencil, censor, censure, condemn, criticize, decry, deprecate, impeach, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, take up, talk down, talk out, talk through, view). (various references)

Swedish		ogillande (deprecation, deprecative, deprecatory, disallowance, disapprobation, disapprobative, disapprobatory, disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dismissal, dismission, dyslogistic), ogilla (be aversed to, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discommend, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, frown on, quash, scorn). (various references)

Turkish		küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, lessen, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, reduce, shrink), küçültme (depreciation, diminution, lessening, making smaller, reducing, reduction), kötülemek (back bite, backbite, cry down, decry, defame, denigrate, discredit, disparage, do down, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., run down, slander, speak ill of, vilify), kötüleme (decrial, denigration, detraction, disparagement, obloquy, revilement, slander, speaking ill of, vilification), ayıplamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., chide, condemn, fault, reflect on, reflect upon, reproach, reprobate, reprove), ayıplama (blame, condemnation, disapproval, reflection, reflexion, reprobation, reproof, reproval). (various references)

Ukrainian		осуджувати (animadvert, criticize, damn, denounce, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, impeach, judge, reprehend, reprobate, reprove), осудження (ban, censure, condemnation, damnation, denunciation, deprecation, reprehension, stricture), предмет осудження. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự khiển trách (admonishment, admonition, animadversion, blame, rebuke, reprehension, rowing), sự gièm pha (decrial, denigration, detraction, vilification), sự chê bai (denigration, depreciation, detraction, disparagement, odium, reprobation), sự chỉ trích (animadversion, censure, damning, lash, lashing). (various references)

Welsh		anghlod. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dispraise": dispraised, dispraiser, dispraisers, dispraises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dispraise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cisparide, Deserbais, disparus, displacive, Dispray. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: despairs, presidia.
	-2 letters: apsides, aspired, aspires, dairies, daisies, despair, diapers, diapirs, diaries, paresis, parises, peridia, praised, praises, prissed, spaders, sparids, spiders, spireas, spreads.
	-3 letters: aiders, arises, asides, aspers, aspire, daises, dassie, deairs, diaper, diapir, diesis, dipsas, drapes, irades, irides, irised, irises, padres, paired, pardie, paries, parsed, parses, passed, passer, pissed, pisser, praise, prases.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: dispraised, dispraiser, dispraises, disrepairs, dissipater.
	+2 letters: diaphoresis, disparities, dispraisers, dissipaters, imparadises, parasitised, pediatrists, praesidiums.
	+3 letters: basidiospore, depositaries, desipramines, dispensaries, preadmission, prussianised, prussianized.
	+4 letters: avoirdupoises, basidiospores, discographies, discrepancies, parasiticides, pedestrianism, preadmissions, radioisotopes, stipendiaries.
	+5 letters: antidepression, dispensatories, endoparasitism, pedestrianisms, superadditions.
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