PRAISINGS Antonyms

• a severe scolding

• verbal punishment

• harsh criticism or disapproval

• the state of being excommunicated

• rebuke formally

• an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable

• (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)

• an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

• the condition of being strongly disapproved of

• (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• a written evaluation of a work of literature

• a public act of denouncing

• a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

• the expression of disapproval

• an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

• the act of disapproving or condemning

• a communication that belittles somebody or something

• the act of speaking contemptuously of

• an act or expression of criticism and censure

• censure severely or angrily

• a mild rebuke or criticism

• disgrace or shame

• express criticism towards

• rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell

• severe disapproval