What is "denounced"

Usage examples of "denounced".

In the Bouches du-Rhône, where the canton of Seignon, by mistake or through routine, swore "to maintain the constitution of the kingdom," it sets aside these retrograde elected representatives, commences proceedings against the "crime committed," and sends troops against Noves because the Noves elector, a justice who is denounced and in peril, has escaped from the electoral den.

Etienne, an engineer, whom Marat and Fréron had denounced as a spy in their periodicals, brought a suit against them in the police court.

Malouet, on leaving it, is almost dragged from his carriage, and the crowd around him cry out, "There goes the bastard who denounced the people!

At Paris,[35] Marat in three successive numbers of his paper has just denounced by name "the rascals and thieves" who canvass for electoral nominations, not the nobles and priests but ordinary citizens, lawyers, architects, physicians, jewellers, stationers, printers, upholsterers and other artisans, each name being given in full with the professions, addresses and one of the following qualifications, "hypocrite (tartufe), immoral, dishonest, bankrupt, informer, usurer, cheat," not to mention others that I cannot write down.

Such was the rage of their denunciations that in one of these clubs a good and brave peasant was denounced as an aristocrat.

He tries to sweep out the vermin of stealing employees, and is forthwith denounced by Marat.

In the section of the Réunion alone, on the first day, 57 denounced persons are thus disarmed for "acts of incivism or expressions adverse to the Republic," not merely lawyers, notaries, architects, and other prominent men, but petty tradesmen and shop keepers, hatters, dyers, locksmiths, mechanics, gilders, and bar keepers.

Words uttered by Hassenfratz, Varlet, and Chabot, and denounced by Lanjuinais.

It denounced McCarthy for having an "admitted homosexual ex-Communist" on his payroll.

The Washington Post's Mary McGrory instantly denounced Buchanan for such "ugly" tactics.

In the wake of an attack on America committed by crazed fundamentalist Muslims, Walter Cronkite denounced Jerry Falwell.

Sued by his former boss Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh for violating confidentiality agreements Toobin signed with the office, a Kennedy-appointed federal appeals court judge found he had engaged in “conduct which manipulates procedure” and harshly denounced his “dubious behavior.

Rosenthal denounced the religious right delegates (the “religious right” is now a state) for supporting Bob Dole at the Republican National Convention—provided they “control what he and the party do and say and where the party is going.

Conservatives are bludgeoned with opposing views their every waking moment, and merely for refusing to join the cult, they are denounced as “intolerant.

Lewis denounced Judge Robert Bork for saying speech that advocates the “forcible overthrow of the Government” or a “violation of law” was not necessarily protected by the First Amendment.