dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mischievous fallacies also circulate from the convertible use of what Mr.B. is pleased to call dyslogistic and eulogistic terms. From Wordnik.com. [Fallacies of Anti-Reformers] Reference
Jingo is neither a pejorative, which is to say derogatory or dyslogistic, nor is it a blasphemous term. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Kennedy, Workhorse Lawmaker - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState] Reference
C.S. Lewis, on criticism, remarked, "Keep a strict eye on eulogistic and dyslogistic adjectives — they should diagnose (not merely blame) and distinguish (not merely praise.)" jon on Apr 25, 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Rant: Did Batman and Robin Really Screw Things Up THAT Much? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
As the reader will perhaps see, from the tenor of my discourse, I would find it difficult to say whether I should give them a good name or a bad -- to speak more scientifically, and of course more clearly, whether I should characterise them by a predicate eulogistic, or a predicate dyslogistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
In the same manner the dyslogistic and eulogistic fallacies are used in the case of reform. From Wordnik.com. [Fallacies of Anti-Reformers] Reference
Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
A dyslogistic term, partly because all myths are lies, but still more because some of them are ignoble lies. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of God in Early Religions] Reference
To the other of these nominally distinct species, he will, at the same time, attach some adjunct of the dyslogistic cast, such as violent, intemperate, extravagant, outrageous, theoretical, speculative, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Fallacies of Anti-Reformers] Reference
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