What is "decries"

Usage examples of "decries".

Michell decries the `materialist outlook' that greeted Artaud's patterns sceptically.

The party which more than any other decries this war and all violence.

Yet there is something about it they have needed, something they have chosen, and so in the end, unlike the asbestos worker who bitterly decries the management that has lied to him and led him down a fatal path, the fighter feels no core bitterness, not even at himself for being a fool, for making such a choice in the folly of youth, because he has forsworn the illusion of wisdom.

He remembers the barber's words: 'The contractors were building down to a price rather than up to a standard,' and he decries the shortsightedness.

The first one, who decries the progress of history in whatever form it takes, is living in the past.

The Itabe colonized Iartex six thousand, three hundred years ago, and (other than the physical alternation their adopted homeland made upon them) seem to all in­tents and purposes culturally identical with their mother world, although each decries the other for its moral decay, and both sight unresolvable dif­ferences in their life-views.