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词汇 decried
释义 decried
past simple and past participle ofdecry
decry
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /dɪˈkraɪ/ us /dɪˈkraɪ/
to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary: 斥责,谴责,抨击
Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.律师们对几名记者遭到监禁表示谴责。
Synonyms
attack(CRITICIZE)
castigateformal
censureformal
chastise(CRITICIZE)formal
condemn
criticize
damn(BLAME)
denounce(CRITICIZE)
excoriateformal
railformal
revileformal
slaminformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to show disapproval of someone or something
criticizeHe criticized the government's handling of the crisis.
attackShe wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted.
condemnShe was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
denounceThe government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
come under fireThe government programme has come under fire for mismanaging funds.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
poorly
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher

Examples of decried


decried

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


They are central to who we are, and cannot simply be dismissed, decried, or ignored.
Some communitarian philosophers have decried this situation and noted that this stance cannot impede the advance of suspect technologies.
Many journalists decried the appearance that the last continent was being militarised.
It must be seen as a conscious rejection of the existing literary code of the time, which decried such subjects as inappropriate for respectable women.
Hammond was never perturbed that his work was often decried as being tainted by the aroma of usefulness.
Instead, an egalitarian notion is assumed and disparities between this concept and actual practice are exposed and decried.
Futurists, it was then noted, had long decried the national reliance on tourism.
Apoliticism was decried by the congress as 'a paid tribute to bourgeois ideas'.
Many recent critics have decried the detrimental impact of technology on music and the body.
Genetic counselors and others have decried such attempts as inadequate.
Another decried the decrease in neighbourliness.
Robinson had argued in 1937 that ' all successful national architecture must of necessity be based on a study of the past ' and he decried modern cosmopolitanism.
We all came together on the tenants' association platform and decried this sort of discrimination.
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Every witness decried the unfairness of the present system.
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I do not decry and never have decried profitability.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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