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(transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason..
We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised.
[T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.
Use mispraise when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mispraise means (transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
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