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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
boo
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher

decry | American Dictionary

decry
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈkrɑɪ/
to publicly criticize something as being undesirable or harmful:
Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state.

Examples of decry

decry
They are central to who we are, and cannot simply be dismissed, decried, or ignored.
They decry deconstruction as tantamount to demolition, turning moral philosophy into mere cultural studies.
It hired a publicist who issued a statement in late 1937, decrying the lack of federal competitions.
To decry his independence from sociohistorical forces was not a realistic option.
The author decries the 1980s campaign to make depression a major public health problem.
Some communitarian philosophers have decried this situation and noted that this stance cannot impede the advance of suspect technologies.
My last comment is not a criticism, because reviews should not decry what the author did not set out to do.
Many journalists decried the appearance that the last continent was being militarised.
She decries simplistic identifications and those based on quotations taken out of context.
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.
The articles often extol the chance to improve on nature and decry the idea that anatomy is destiny.
It also has articulate defenders who decry attempts to separate spirituality from religion.
They fly under the radar of much globalization theory (and the cultural legislators that decry the effects of globalization).
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.
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