Meaning of dispraising | Babel Free

Definitions

Serving to dispraise; critical; disparaging.

Examples

“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«.”

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