词汇 | denounce |
释义 | denounce verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈnaʊns/ us /dɪˈnaʊns/ denounceverb[T] (CRITICIZE)to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly: (公开)谴责,痛斥 The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.政府的经济政策受到了各方面的谴责。 He angrily denounced the decision not to allow him to speak. We must denounce injustice and oppression.我们必须对不公和压迫现象予以谴责。 denounce someone/something as somethingSome denounced the plan as inadequate and vague. Synonyms attack(CRITICIZE) castigateformal censureformal chastise(CRITICIZE)formal condemn criticize damn(BLAME) decryformal excoriateformal railformal revileformal slaminformal 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. 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 denounceverb[T] (ACCUSE)to tell someone in authority about a person's illegal activities, especially illegal political activities : People were willing to denounce their neighbours. denounce someone as somethingHis former colleagues have denounced him as a spy.他以前的同事告发他是间谍。 If you did not conform you risked being denounced to the secret police. Blaming & accusing accusatory accuse someone of a crime accuse someone of something accuser accusingly alleged arraign blame blame game contributory negligence haul have someone to thank (for something)idiom impeachment imputation incriminating incrimination nail opprobrium recrimination stitch denounce | American Dictionarydenounce verb[ T ] us/dɪˈnɑʊns/ to criticize someone or something strongly and publicly: The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate. Examples of denouncedenounce They will not be denounced as ' 'wrong' ' or ridiculed. Indeed, the ' extremist ' label better fitted the hardline fundamentalists who vehemently denounced the religious right. They did not seem to take into account that the play, among other things, denounced the exploitation often surrounding immigration. Unreasoning use of therapeutic and prophylactic antimicrobial and antivector agents is deservedly denounced. Again, it is true that some critics denounced all ceremony as irrational and barbaric at worse, and expensive at best. He denounced the practice of approving libretti for production without consulting the composer, or sometimes before a composer had even been selected. More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced. They each struck out against the inequities inherent in the tariff system and denounced the increasing governmental activism associated with high tariff rates. At last, in 1636-7, they published works which denounced the government of bishops within the church. The opposition parties denounced the contest as fraudulent, and boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections. All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war. Educators in the early twentieth century persistently denounced the effects of child labour on schooling. Environmentalists advocate "the precautionary principle" whenever there is a threat of ecological catastrophe and are denounced as catastrophists by their opponents for doing so. Protestant casuists denounced the use of tactics of equivocation and mental reservation in taking oaths. Would these groups not have denounced such practices ? See all examples of denounce These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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