0 present participle of decry
1 to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary:
Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.
It hired a publicist who issued a statement in late 1937, decrying the lack of federal competitions.
The decrying of delusion and treason was ever thus.
In addition to decrying the emphasis on entertainers in news content, some critics also object to the transformation of journalists into celebrities.
Keymer added a postscript decrying the farmers' pretensions of serving the commonweal, but to no effect.
No one is decrying educational attainments and standards in this country.
Anyone who did this would be deservedly castigated; for he would expose his abysmal ignorance in the very act of decrying it.
Is that not worth the efforts that he is decrying and disparaging?
Instead of decrying or despising this activity, we should welcome it as dealing with this basic human problem of production.
