Word Meanings - UNDERPRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To praise below desert.

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• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• BELOW
  1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting;
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• PRAISEFUL
  Praiseworthy.
• DESERTNESS
  A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.
• PRAISEWORTHY
  Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.
• DESERTION
  1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• FURBELOW
  A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
• DISPRAISER
  One who blames or dispraises.
• APPRAISEMENT
  The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.