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Publicly condemning
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decrying
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vb. (present participle of decry English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decry \De*cry"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Decrying .] [F. d['e]crier, OF. descrier; pref. des- (L. dis-) + crier to cry. See Cry , and cf. Descry .] To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame ...
Usage examples of decrying.
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.