dispraising
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Serving to dispraise; critical; disparaging.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 the norm."
- "Some participants in the debate even made a dispraising use of the Aryan myth and declared that the »Hindu society was hierarchical and it had a racial basis as the distinction between fair-skinned Aryans and dark Dasyus existed«."
Inflected Forms
more dispraising (comparative)
most dispraising (superlative)