dispraising
dispraising adjective: serving to dispraise; critical; disparaging. Also the present participle and gerund of dispraise.
Adjective
dispraising (comparative more dispraising, superlative most dispraising)
- Serving to dispraise; critical; disparaging.
- Paradoxically, opinions that come closer to understanding the uniqueness and significance of the film are those with a dispraising tone — arising from the same discourse of ideological critique — toward these very qualities.2011, Jörg Schweinitz, Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory, page 220
- The content of a dispraising message is in part a cognitive mapping, and since in all three of these activities people believe that it is possible to measure performance objectively, correction could take the much less punitive form of simply telling the trainee that performance has fallen below...2022, William J. Goode, The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System, page 306
Also used as
dispraising is also the present participle and gerund of dispraise.
Forms of dispraising
| comparative | more dispraising |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dispraising |
Words formed from dispraising
Questions about dispraising
- What does dispraising mean?
- Dispraising means serving to dispraise; critical; disparaging.
- What part of speech is dispraising?
- Dispraising is an adjective.
Words near dispraising in the dictionary
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