0 past simple and past participle of decry --
1 to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary: --
Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.
I do not decry and never have decried profitability.
Every witness decried the unfairness of the present system.
We all came together on the tenants' association platform and decried this sort of discrimination.
Robinson had argued in 1937 that ' all successful national architecture must of necessity be based on a study of the past ' and he decried modern cosmopolitanism.
Another decried the decrease in neighbourliness.
Genetic counselors and others have decried such attempts as inadequate.
Many recent critics have decried the detrimental impact of technology on music and the body.
Apoliticism was decried by the congress as 'a paid tribute to bourgeois ideas'.