Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mispraise
Participle: mispraised
Gerund: mispraising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mispraise |
| you | mispraise |
| he;she;it | mispraises |
| we | mispraise |
| you | mispraise |
| they | mispraise |
Perfect
| I | have mispraised |
| you | have mispraised |
| he;she;it | has mispraised |
| we | have mispraised |
| you | have mispraised |
| they | have mispraised |
Past
| I | mispraised |
| you | mispraised |
| he;she;it | mispraised |
| we | mispraised |
| you | mispraised |
| they | mispraised |
Pluperfect
| I | had mispraised |
| you | had mispraised |
| he;she;it | had mispraised |
| we | had mispraised |
| you | had mispraised |
| they | had mispraised |
Future
| I | will mispraise |
| you | will mispraise |
| he;she;it | will mispraise |
| we | will mispraise |
| you | will mispraise |
| they | will mispraise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mispraised |
| you | will have mispraised |
| he;she;it | will have mispraised |
| we | will have mispraised |
| you | will have mispraised |
| they | will have mispraised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mispraise |
| you | mispraise |
| he;she;it | mispraise |
| we | mispraise |
| you | mispraise |
| they | mispraise |
Perfect
| I | have mispraised |
| you | have mispraised |
| he;she;it | have mispraised |
| we | have mispraised |
| you | have mispraised |
| they | have mispraised |
Imperfect
| I | mispraised |
| you | mispraised |
| he;she;it | mispraised |
| we | mispraised |
| you | mispraised |
| they | mispraised |
Pluperfect
| I | had mispraised |
| you | had mispraised |
| he;she;it | had mispraised |
| we | had mispraised |
| you | had mispraised |
| they | had mispraised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mispraise |
| you | would mispraise |
| he;she;it | would mispraise |
| we | would mispraise |
| you | would mispraise |
| they | would mispraise |
Perfect
| I | would have mispraised |
| you | would have mispraised |
| he;she;it | would have mispraised |
| we | would have mispraised |
| you | would have mispraised |
| they | would have mispraised |
Imperative
| you | mispraise |
| we | Let's mispraise |
| you | mispraise |
Verbs conjugated like 'mispraise'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mispraise'
dispraise,
misprise,
misraise,
misappraise,
misparse,
misphrase,
misprice,
misprize,
appraise,
bepraise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From mis- + praise. Compare to French mépriser. See: French '
mépriser'.
Verbs referencing "mispraise"
French
mépriser.
Sample Sentences
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[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. [1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview):]
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We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse. [1845, Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview)]
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Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised. [2010, Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting Jonathan Barnes), Offerings to the Discerning Eye, Sue D'Auria (ed.), p. 247 n.25 (Google preview)]
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On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet. [1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, →ISBN, page 106:]