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    1. Doesn’t she know that someone will be filling that damn thing again in just a few short days? … Women … Always crying over empty beds or broken heels or something,” he decried


    2. In that letter he decried the mayor’s arrogant attitude “that can only breathe contempt for the citizens and disregard for their views”


    3. ” He also reflected, for the doubting lawmakers, that: “The bishop has authority to teach, and he has authority to teach you!” He also recently decried how “this tendency for the government to claim for itself authority over all areas of human experience flows from the secularization of our culture


    4. It is small wonder that liberal critics decried Kubrick's vision, as this also runs counter to their notions


    5. This was the celebrated (and then decried) "White Man's Burden"


    6. Ambedkar decried India’s hero-worshipping culture and indeed we Indians quickly make legends of our leaders


    7. She decried as a dereliction any suggestion of a failure to keep records or a tendency to lose documents, or to hide them or deal with government business under a cloud of secrecy where it is not justified


    8. “That's not me;” she decried to the face appearing between two hers, and that face was her's


    9. ” voicing themselves through EvEx, half of VAL decried the innuendo


    10. It was Noel himself who decried his accidental connection to a purveyor of enslavement

    11. On pattern, the Prophesy accroached Devilier’s work even while they decried it, and by so doing they assembled the pieces necessary to build their new social order---all while purportedly retaining moral purity


    12. rebellions, he never decried the Deva way


    13. against which men dare not life a voice lest they decried as heretics, and a menace to the cause of Christ


    14. mind; and against which men dare not lift a voice lest they decried as heretics, and a menace to the cause of Christ


    15. An inquisition of chains and torches is not less preferable than the perpetual subjection to doctrines, which palsy the mind; and against which men dare not lift a voice lest they decried as heretics, and a menace to the cause of Christ


    16. myself into a profession more decried than disused


    17. Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves


    18. No reflections on the consequences ever once perplexed me, nor did I make myself one single reproach for having, by this step, completely entered myself into a profession more decried than disused


    19. ” And so I sowed an effectual seed of opposition to Mr Plan, in a quarter he never dreamt of; the two dominies, in the dread of undergoing some transmogrification, laid their heads together, and went round among the parents of the children, and decried the academy project, and the cess that the cost of it would bring upon the town; by which a public opinion was begotten and brought to a bearing, that the magistrates could not


    20. When Correggio's Holy Families were admired, they admired Correggio's Holy Families; when he was decried in favour of Velasquez, they sedulously followed suit without any personal objection

    1. From verse 5 on to the end of the chapter Habakkuk decries wicked men, and evil


    2. Arrogance decries punishment for any wrongdoing


    3. For, who decries the loved, decries the lover;


    4. But I’ve learned that if the medical system decries something, at least take a second look


    5. Kaminer, for instance, decries the “antisocial strain of the positive thinking/mind-cure tradition,” which holds that “compassion is a


    1. We often provide safety nets designed to excuse rather than formerly decry base or unbecoming behavior whose pervasiveness must inevitably weaken the moral imperatives of a well-ordered society


    2. Many point especially to his foreign policy with Britain and France and decry what they call his weakness


    3. three times the inflation rate every year! Although these two senators decry the federal deficit every year, they also vote to uphold the right of Congressmen to spend over $25 billion every year on


    4. hundreds of protesters on Sunday to decry the festival, which predates the introduction


    5. Skeptics will decry the inequality of women in the workplace but but champion the ability of women to participate in, profit from, and consume a form of media – pornography – that has been shown to harm them individually and as an identifiable segment of the population


    6. ” An old lady of my father’s distant relative volleyed her foul decry before leaving our house


    7. Once you decry greed, you must cease believing in fair inequity and a justified superclass


    8. A public decry of war and advocating pacifism and isolationism… until he is ‘forced’ into declaring war against his will because of a nefarious attack on an island of no strategic importance whatsoever to America


    9. For that reason, I decry the used of any tools which do that to a


    10. There was, about that time, a great sough throughout the country on the subject of education, and it was a fashion to call schools academies; and out of a delusion rising from the use of that term, to think it necessary to decry the good plain old places, wherein so many had learnt those things by which they helped to make the country and kingdom what it is, and to scheme for the ways and means to raise more edificial structures and receptacles

    11. But the uncompromising Evangelical did not even now hold that he would have been justified in giving his son, an unbeliever, the same academic advantages that he had given to the two others, when it was possible, if not probable, that those very advantages might have been used to decry the doctrines which he had made it his life's mission and desire to propagate, and the mission of his ordained sons likewise


    12. Security analysts and intelligent investors should make special efforts to avoid and decry this misleading method of stating preferred-dividend coverage, and this may best be accomplished by dropping the dollars-per-share form of calculation entirely


    13. If they do this, they will be unavoidably led to decry their education, and to begin to learn anew; and this alone is what is wanted


    1. Decrying her praise, I flapped my hand


    2. The Collegian Associate City Editor wrote a column decrying the police report as an insult to students, professing outrage at the easy use of the word “Communist”, and giving credit to “thinkers… who want nothing to do with war and those who represent it”


    3. It was also yet another set piece in the debate over video game violence and adult content, with advocacy groups decrying the series' glorification of prostitution, the mafia, and of course violence, including violence against first responders such as police and EMS


    4. They are fond of decrying and running down all spiritual machinery or missionary operations


    5. Maybe, it’s in the realms of Allah’s imponderables that while decrying the joys of life of here, He should have promised the believers earthly pleasures in the ‘Hereafter’! After all, won’t deprivation ‘here’ make the craving for the ‘Hereafter’ all the more intense in the believers? Be that as it may, it never seems to occur to the believers that with the body buried here, how one were to enjoy the joys of flesh the ‘Hereafter’ holds for him or her?


    6. It was the terrified shout of Starbuck, decrying Ahab’s blasphemy and his final lowering for the great white flesh


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    Synonyms for "decry"

    condemn decry excoriate objurgate reprobate censure rebuke castigate inculpate chide berate upbraid

    "decry" definitions

    express strong disapproval of