Dispraise

Dis`praise´

v. t.	1.	To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. [imp. & p. p. Dispraised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispraising.] Dispraising the power of his adversaries. - Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. - Shak.
n.	1.	The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. In praise and in dispraise the same. - Tennyson.

Noun

dispraise - the act of speaking contemptuously of

Synonyms: disparagement

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