to damn with faint praise
41contempt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of disdain Nouns 1. contempt, contemptuousness, disdain, scorn, despisal, contumely; detraction, disapprobation; derision, disrespect; defiance; arrogance (see insolence); ridicule, mockery; hoot …
42leer´ing|ly — leer 1 «lihr», noun, verb. –n. a sly, nasty look to the side; evil glance: »She gives the leer of invitation (Shakespeare). Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer (Alexander Pope). ╂[< verb] –v.i. to give a sly, evil glance. ╂[perhaps… …
43decry — v 1. detract, disparage, demean, deprecate, belittle, deflate, depreciate, devaluate, damn with faint praise, Inf. talk down; discredit, disfavor, make disreputable, injure or impair the credit or reputation of; criticize, dispraise, cut up,… …
44minimize — v 1. lessen, attenuate, decrease, cut down, prune, pare, minify; reduce, diminish, condense, abridge, curtail, abbreviate, shorten. 2. slight, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, beggar, extenuate, underreckon, misprize, think nothing of, set… …
45praises — praise [praise praises praised praising] noun, verb …
46Felix Mendelssohn — …
47Bunyip aristocracy — The term Bunyip aristocracy was first coined in 1853 by Daniel Deniehy who made a speech lambasting the attempt by William Wentworth to establish a titled aristocracy in New South Wales government. This speech came to be known as the Bunyip… …
48The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …
49Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …
50List of All Saints episodes — The following is an episode list for the Australian medical drama All Saints. From 24 February 1998 to 27 October 2009, a total of 494 original episodes of All Saints aired over its twelve season run. Some of the shows episode titles are used… …
