What is "decry"

Usage examples of "decry".

Instead of worrying about his wife, he tried to review in his memory an article by an orthopedist decrying the effects of shoes that forced the foot to strike with high impact on the calcaneus at each step and the further skeletal deterioration caused by leather soles and hard rubber heels.

Mopsa, my fostermother, that, being a wise-woman, fools decry as witch, and my ten grave and learned guardians have banished therefor?

The Galenists were bitterly decrying his refusal to accept Galen on many points, and both of these works would have added fuel to the flame of controversy.

The architecture is Modern Neoclassic, which the best architects decry with some justice, but which is the closest approach in stainless steel, glass and planed limestone to that Grecian ideal which has been irrevocably planted in the human mind as the proper form of a public building.

Willie Atkins, decried with a look at Ty, who had been dubbed Montana by his mostly southern roommates.

I believe there is a far more intelligent and presumption-free debate going on in the decried science fiction genre than in many of the so-called conscious and, for most people, incomprehensible, cultural magazines that are embraced with such great benevolence by the critics.

He said a few words about there being a tide in the affairs of men, going with the flow, life as a river, the fount of all knowledge, sinners being pond scum, and brooking no arguments from any outsiders who decried the methods of the Soulhaven Retreat and Starchild Immersionarium because such drips were spiritual wet blankets.

With what Equity, Chiromantical conjecturers decry these decussations in the Lines and Mounts of the hand?

Barry wanted me to have the editorial decrying the mall's contribution to materialism.

Never before had he grown so hard so fast, and he ground against her, driving his aching stiffness into the softness between her legs, decrying the clothes that stood between them.

Usually, when I come to him with these little requests of mine, he makes heavy weather of it, decrying its difficulties.

His opponents were portrayed in grainy black-and-white, overlaid with tabloid-type headlines decrying their perfidy.

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens -- there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

I can show you the personal diary of Marcus Antonius, senior Centurion of the Fourteenth Roman Legion, one of the most cold-blooded killers you'd ever hate to meet, who decried in his personal writings the fact that humans were so often at odds when they should be combining their forces against the Darhel, the Old Ones as he knew them.

She will have the job of guarding against the excesses of cultural imperialism you decried so effectively.