"disrecommend" meaning in English

See disrecommend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˌdɪsɹɛkəˈmɛnd/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disrecommend.wav Forms: disrecommends [present, singular, third-person], disrecommending [participle, present], disrecommended [participle, past], disrecommended [past]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: From dis- + recommend. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|dis|recommend}} dis- + recommend Head templates: {{en-verb}} disrecommend (third-person singular simple present disrecommends, present participle disrecommending, simple past and past participle disrecommended)
  1. (transitive) To recommend the opposite or negation of; to advise against. Tags: transitive Derived forms: disrecommendation Related terms: recommend, recommendable, recommendably, recommendation, recommendatory, recommended [adjective], recommender, recommendor Translations (to recommend the opposite or negation of): afraden (Dutch), malrekomendi (Esperanto), abraten (German), dati negativnu preporuku (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[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?",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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