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.
They are central to who we are, and cannot simply be dismissed, decried, or ignored.
Some communitarian philosophers have decried this situation and noted that this stance cannot impede the advance of suspect technologies.
Many journalists decried the appearance that the last continent was being militarised.
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.
Hammond was never perturbed that his work was often decried as being tainted by the aroma of usefulness.
Instead, an egalitarian notion is assumed and disparities between this concept and actual practice are exposed and decried.
Futurists, it was then noted, had long decried the national reliance on tourism.
Apoliticism was decried by the congress as 'a paid tribute to bourgeois ideas'.
