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"Disrecommend" in a Sentence (6 examples)
Near-synonyms: deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh, discommend (rare)
[P]ut the Caſe that the Nobleman of the ancienter Family does not indeed diſgrace his Dignity, but adds nothing to it; having nothing extraordinary to recommend him or diſrecommend him: Whereas the other, by his perſonal Merit, has rais'd himſelf to an equal Dignity. Which of the two in this Suppoſition deſerves the greater Eſteem?
The female schools established for the wives and daughters of Parsees, Hindoos, and other natives of Bombay, have excited the attention of Lord Falkland [the Governor of Bombay] and Sir [Thomas] Erskine Perry, the chief justice, both of whom, accompanied by Professor Henry Green, paid them a visit; the result was that an attempt to find space for a permanent school-room in one of the ravelins of the fortifications was made, but the chief engineer thought it his duty to disrecommend this proposal, and it was accordingly abandoned. [From the Bombay Times.]
You will find it [a Bloody Mary made with tequila] a splendid pick-me-up, and throw-me-down, and jump-on-me. Strongly disrecommended for mornings after.
Take for example a transaction that is performed without any defection. A transaction peer may still defame the other one by disrecommending it to a third entity. […] Under certain circumstances, the defamed entity has to pro-actively defend itself by disrecommending the defamer.
But then there is the other factor of the pharma industry's irresposibility exemplified in the following recent example: A drug hurriedly licensed for utilization—off recommendation—for breast cancer that, in further review, is found not to be useful in breast cancer but, on the contrary, presenting unacceptably high risks; but when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disrecommends it, the company, instead of voluntarily removing it from such recommendation, sues against the decision only because of the high profitability for the company.
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