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decrying
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 clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
For small errors they whole plays decry.
--Dryden.
Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom
are naturally decried by the other.
--Addison.
Syn: To Decry, Depreciate, Detract, Disparage.
Usage: Decry and depreciate refer to the estimation of a thing, the former seeking to lower its value by clamorous censure, the latter by representing it as of little worth. Detract and disparage also refer to merit or value, which the former assails with caviling, insinuation, etc., while the latter willfully underrates and seeks to degrade it. Men decry their rivals and depreciate their measures. The envious detract from the merit of a good action, and disparage the motives of him who performs it.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decry English)
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.