Blame
Blame verb - To express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of.
Usage example: more concerned with pleasing audiences, the playwright has always claimed to be indifferent to whether critics praise his comedies or blame them without mercy
Praise
Praise verb - To proclaim the glory of.
Usage example: hymns that praise God
How words are described
| rare | rare blame | rare praise |
| equal | equal blame | equal praise |
| actual | actual blame | actual praise |
| real | real blame | real praise |
| Other adjectives: huge, little, excessive, verbal, undeserved. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- I do not know whether this trait of the mind deserves blame or praise, but it attests to his incredible flexibility and the presence of that lucid common sense that pardons evil wherever it recognizes its necessity or the impossibility of its abolishment.
Source: Literature / A Hero of Our Time - Many people blame Artemis for the whole deal while others praise her for giving a new world a chance.
Source: Podcast / Guiders Of Our Dreams - But society, like "matter," and Her Majesty's Government, and other lofty abstractions, has its share of excessive blame as well as excessive praise.
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