Antonyms for the word "praising" include critical, condemning, disparaging, disapproving, reproaching, scolding, blaming, fault-finding, and reproving. When someone engages in criticism, they express disapproval or make negative comments about something or someone. Condemning is a more severe form of criticism, where the judgement implies that something is morally wrong. Disparaging means expressing a negative opinion that something or someone is not important, of low quality or value. Disapproving means expressing a negative opinion or judgment about something, and reproaching is expressing disapproval to another person's behavior. Blaming is a criticism that assigns responsibility or fault, while fault-finding is criticizing someone's mistakes, shortcomings or defects.

What are the antonyms for Praising?

• adj.

  • arrogant, insolent
  • contemptuous
  .
  • captious
  • Cavillous
  ,
  • Exceptive
  ,
  • ex acting
  ,
  • ex-acting
  ,
  • fault finding
  ,
  • hyper critical
  ,
  • hyper-critical
  ,
  • irritable
  ,
  • more caviling
  ,
  • more cavillous
  ,
  • more deprecating
  ,
  • more exceptive
  ,
  • more nit picking
  ,
  • more nit-picking
  ,
  • most caviling
  ,
  • most cavillous
  ,
  • most deprecating
  ,
  • most exceptive
  ,
  • most nit picking
  ,
  • most nit-picking
  ,
  • nit picking
  ,
  • nit-picking
  ,
  • over critical
  ,
  • over-critical
  .
  • censorious
  • Culpatory
  ,
  • condemnatory
  ,
  • dis approving
  ,
  • dis-approving
  ,
  • more chiding
  ,
  • more condemnatory
  ,
  • more condemning
  ,
  • more culpatory
  ,
  • more denouncing
  ,
  • more disapproving
  ,
  • more reprehending
  ,
  • more reproaching
  ,
  • most chiding
  ,
  • most condemnatory
  ,
  • most condemning
  ,
  • most culpatory
  ,
  • most denouncing
  ,
  • most disapproving
  ,
  • most reprehending
  ,
  • most reproaching
  .
  • complaining
  • Fretting
  ,
  • be wailing
  ,
  • be-wailing
  ,
  • more accusing
  ,
  • more bellyaching
  ,
  • more bewailing
  ,
  • more charging
  ,
  • more deploring
  ,
  • more dissenting
  ,
  • more fretting
  ,
  • more moaning
  ,
  • more mourning
  ,
  • more murmuring
  ,
  • more protesting
  ,
  • more regretting
  ,
  • more repining
  ,
  • more whining
  ,
  • most accusing
  ,
  • most bellyaching
  ,
  • most bewailing
  ,
  • most charging
  ,
  • most deploring
  ,
  • most dissenting
  ,
  • most fretting
  ,
  • most moaning
  ,
  • most mourning
  ,
  • most murmuring
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  • most protesting
  ,
  • most regretting
  ,
  • most repining
  ,
  • most whining
  ,
  • pro testing
  ,
  • pro-testing
  ,
  • re-pining
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  • complaining, irritable
  • grouchy
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  • contemptuous
  • cold-shoulder
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  • coldshoulder
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  • derisory
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  • dis respectful
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  • dis-respectful
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  • dog it
  ,
  • hard nosed
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  • hardnosed
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  • high mighty
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  • more cold shoulder
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  • more cold-shoulder
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  • more coldshoulder
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  • more derisory
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  • more upstage
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  • most cold shoulder
  ,
  • most cold-shoulder
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  • most coldshoulder
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  • most derisory
  ,
  • most upstage
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  • up pity
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  • up stage
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  • up-pity
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  • up-stage
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  • critical
  • all important
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  • all-important
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  • allimportant
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  • calumniatory
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  • de meaning
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  • de terminative
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  • de-meaning
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  • de-terminative
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  • dis criminating
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  • dis-criminating
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  • high-priority
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  • highpriority
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  • more all important
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  • more belittling
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  • more calumniatory
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  • more censuring
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  • more critic
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  • more demeaning
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  • more hairsplitting
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  • more highpriority
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  • more humbling
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  • more reproachful
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  • more scolding
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  • most all important
  ,
  • most all-important
  ,
  • most allimportant
  ,
  • most belittling
  ,
  • most calumniatory
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  • most censuring
  ,
  • most critic
  ,
  • most demeaning
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  • most hairsplitting
  ,
  • most high priority
  ,
  • most high-priority
  ,
  • most highpriority
  ,
  • most humbling
  ,
  • most reproachful
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  • most scolding
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  • pre carious
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  • pre-carious
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  • reproachful
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  • defamatory
  • de tractive
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  • de-tractive
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  • more denigrating
  ,
  • more detracting
  ,
  • more maligning
  ,
  • more traducing
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  • more vilifying
  ,
  • most denigrating
  ,
  • most detracting
  ,
  • most maligning
  ,
  • most traducing
  ,
  • most vilifying
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  • derisive
  • Gally
  ,
  • flipper
  ,
  • flippest
  ,
  • gallier
  ,
  • galliest
  ,
  • more out of line
  ,
  • more out-of-line
  ,
  • more taunting
  ,
  • most out of line
  ,
  • most out-of-line
  ,
  • most taunting
  ,
  • out of line
  ,
  • out-of-line
  ,
  • smart alecky
  ,
  • smartalecky
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  • derogative
  • disparaging
  .
  • derogatory
  • de crying
  ,
  • de grading
  ,
  • de precatory
  ,
  • de rogatory
  ,
  • de spiteful
  ,
  • de-crying
  ,
  • de-grading
  ,
  • de-precatory
  ,
  • de-rogatory
  ,
  • de-spiteful
  ,
  • dis honoring
  ,
  • dis-honoring
  ,
  • more aspersing
  ,
  • more decrying
  ,
  • more dishonoring
  ,
  • more minimizing
  ,
  • most aspersing
  ,
  • most decrying
  ,
  • most dishonoring
  ,
  • most minimizing
  ,
  • un favorable
  ,
  • un flattering
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  • un-favorable
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  • un-flattering
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  • disdainful
  • Over-bearing
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  • anti pathetic
  ,
  • anti-pathetic
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  • high-and-mighty
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  • hoity toity
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  • hoitytoity
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  • in different
  ,
  • in solent
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  • in-different
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  • in-solent
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  • more contemning
  ,
  • more despising
  ,
  • more high and mighty
  ,
  • more high-and-mighty
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  • more rejecting
  ,
  • more repudiating
  ,
  • more scouting
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  • more toplofty
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  • most contemning
  ,
  • most despising
  ,
  • most high and mighty
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  • most rejecting
  ,
  • most repudiating
  ,
  • most scouting
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  • most toplofty
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  • over bearing
  ,
  • top lofty
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  • top-lofty
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  • toplofty
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  • un sympathetic
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  • un-sympathetic
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  • disparaging
  • Epithetical
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  • more epithetical
  ,
  • most epithetical
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  • fault-finding, detracting
  • critical
  .
  • faultfinding
  • be rating
  ,
  • be-rating
  ,
  • faultfinding
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  • more berating
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  • most berating
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  • grouchy
  • dis contented
  ,
  • dis-contented
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  • illtempered
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  • most discontented
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  • libelous
  • Aspersive
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  • Detractory
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  • de basing
  ,
  • de-basing
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  • libelous
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  • more aspersive
  ,
  • more backbiting
  ,
  • more debasing
  ,
  • more detractory
  ,
  • most aspersive
  ,
  • most backbiting
  ,
  • most debasing
  ,
  • most detractory
  ,
  • un truer
  ,
  • un truest
  ,
  • un-truer
  ,
  • un-truest
  .
  • libelous, slanderous
  • defamatory
  .
  • negative, belittling
  • pejorative
  .
  • noun
  • uncomplimentary
  .
  • objecting
  • complaining
  .
  • offensive, uncomplimentary
  • derogatory
  .
  • opprobrious
  • de faming
  ,
  • de-faming
  ,
  • dis gracing
  ,
  • dis-gracing
  ,
  • more abasing
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  • more defaming
  ,
  • more disgracing
  ,
  • more hurting
  ,
  • more injuring
  ,
  • more invective
  ,
  • more libeling
  ,
  • more offending
  ,
  • more reviling
  ,
  • more shaming
  ,
  • most abasing
  ,
  • most defaming
  ,
  • most disgracing
  ,
  • most hurting
  ,
  • most injuring
  ,
  • most invective
  ,
  • most libeling
  ,
  • most offending
  ,
  • most reviling
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  • most shaming
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  • opprobrious
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  • pejorative
  • dis advantageous
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  • dis-advantageous
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  • irreverent
  ,
  • more uncomplimentary
  ,
  • most uncomplimentary
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  • un complimentary
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  • un pleasant
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  • un-complimentary
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  • un-pleasant
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  • ridiculing
  • derisive
  .
  • scathing
  • more sulphurous
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  • most sulphurous
  ,
  • scathing
  ,
  • sulphurous
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  • scornful
  • disdainful
  .
  • teasing
  • Harassing
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  • Plaguing
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  • ex asperating
  ,
  • ex-asperating
  ,
  • more badgering
  ,
  • more bothering
  ,
  • more exasperating
  ,
  • more harassing
  ,
  • more kidding
  ,
  • more plaguing
  ,
  • more ribbing
  ,
  • more tickling
  ,
  • more vexing
  ,
  • most badgering
  ,
  • most bothering
  ,
  • most exasperating
  ,
  • most harassing
  ,
  • most kidding
  ,
  • most plaguing
  ,
  • most ribbing
  ,
  • most tickling
  ,
  • most vexing
  ,
  • teasing
  .
  • venomous
  • Viperish
  ,
  • malefic
  ,
  • more cussed
  ,
  • more malefic
  ,
  • more viperish
  ,
  • most cussed
  ,
  • most malefic
  ,
  • most viperish
  ,
  • venomous
  .
  • very critical
  • captious
  ,
  • censorious
  .

Usage examples for Praising

Famous quotes with Praising

• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

  Karl Barth
• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

  Karl Barth
• The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

  Samuel Butler
• In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

  Cleopatra
• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

  Will Durant

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