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Public protest
Answer for the clue "Public protest ", 6 letters:
outcry
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Word definitions for outcry in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "act of crying aloud," from out + cry (v.). In metaphoric sense of "public protest," first attested 1911 in George Bernard Shaw.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry , call , yell , shout , vociferation ] v. shout louder than [syn: outshout ] utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, ...
Usage examples of outcry.
I remember nothing of it, except the outcry of the horologer, Melisande clapping, and her smile.
I could hear the outcry from all those deprived by him of their precious drug which made me weigh in my mind the good of the one against the good of the many, a quandary made all the more difficult by the one in this case having dedicated his whole life to the many.
Of bones and spirits linked together in an outcry of rage against a fate that is snappish, arbitrary and rude, heedlessly interrupting deeds in mid-doing, thoughts in midflight, words in midsen-tence.
Her struggles subsided but her outcry did not, and the noise attracted attention.
Disraeli satirised the great outcry about suppressing outrage, if the addition of two hundred constables were sufficient.
As the wretched beast made no outcry, it was evident that it had either been paralyzed by the terrible telson, the poisonous sting at the end of the jointed tail, or slain by the immense chelae.
From the occasional outcry as one or another of his companions awoke from a troubling dream, he knew the others were suffering from the same affliction.
After a public outcry, Governor Barnett granted Kennard early release, but he died soon after, on July 4, 1963, when Meredith was still attending Ole Miss.
The outcry from European capitals led the administration to temper its position, but Bush had never lost his skepticism about peacekeeping in the Balkans.
As they closed in they could hear the outcry coming from the encampment, the screams and the wailing, the wild, triumphant ululations of the Nguni as they plied the assegai and the kerrie.
Still grinning, he followed the freshest tracks away from the midden, hoping for a sighting, and had gone only half a mile when just beyond the wall of grey impenetrable bush that flanked the narrow trail, there was a sudden hissing, churring outcry of alarm calls and a cloud of brown oxpeckers rose above the scrub.
Such a doing twisted my wounded skin as it should not have been twisted, and my stomach heaved from that and from the odor of the pelts beneath my face, yet I made no protest nor outcry, for how may a captive protest the doings of her captors?
The outcry inside the shelter rose to a new pitch of polylingual panic.
I heard the sound of a heavy body crashing into the shrubs and then an eerie outcry.
A hand clamped down over Silvers mouth, smothering her outcry as she was jarred out of a sound sleep into half waking.