All commend antonyms

verb commend

• denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
• criticise — criticize
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• rebuke — to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
• reprimand — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
• criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• retain — to keep possession of.
• discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.