0 to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary:
Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.
1 to publicly criticize something as being undesirable or harmful:
Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state.
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.
