0 present participle of decry
1 to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary:
Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.
I am not in any way decrying that common sense.
I am not decrying his efforts or heaping scorn upon him.
Elitists and reactionaries, as well as honest doubters, are articulate in decrying education.
The carrot which they were decrying a little time ago they are now holding before us.
I am not for a moment decrying it, but it is an entirely voluntary body.
I am not decrying them exactly for that, because possibly they had not the organisation.
No good purpose can be served by decrying or attempting to decry the gravity of the situation.
Instead of decrying or despising this activity, we should welcome it as dealing with this basic human problem of production.
