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.
Instead, an egalitarian notion is assumed and disparities between this concept and actual practice are exposed and decried.
Hammond was never perturbed that his work was often decried as being tainted by the aroma of usefulness.
They fly under the radar of much globalization theory (and the cultural legislators that decry the effects of globalization).
It also has articulate defenders who decry attempts to separate spirituality from religion.
The articles often extol the chance to improve on nature and decry the idea that anatomy is destiny.
It must be seen as a conscious rejection of the existing literary code of the time, which decried such subjects as inappropriate for respectable women.
She decries simplistic identifications and those based on quotations taken out of context.
Many journalists decried the appearance that the last continent was being militarised.
