Antonyms for encomium

Grammar : Noun

Spell : en-koh-mee-uh m

Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈkoʊ mi əm

Definition of encomium

Origin : 1580s, from Late Latin encomium, from Greek enkomion (epos) "laudatory (ode), eulogy," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + komos "banquet, procession, merrymaking" (see comedy).

noun compliment

Example sentences :

They need no encomium of mine, but I am prepared to stand by them to the last ditch.
Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

To Sir Felix an encomium from a fair lady was ever irresistible.
Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan

One knows not which to admire most, the beauty of the poetry or the justice of the encomium.
Extract from : « The Critics Versus Shakspere » by Francis A. Smith

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none.
Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett

I can not pass this Godly man by without an encomium to his memory.
Extract from : « As I Remember » by Marian Gouverneur

“She looks it,” said Stonor, with a sidelong glance at the object of her encomium.
Extract from : « The Woman from Outside » by Hulbert Footner

The country knows, by this time, that we cannot repeat the encomium.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849 » by Various

The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople.
Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton

An apple so well known, as to require neither description nor encomium.
Extract from : « British Pomology » by Robert Hogg

Such an encomium, from such a source, may well have set expectation on the alert.
Extract from : « Studies in Modern Music, Second Series » by W. H. Hadow

Synonyms for encomium

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