0 present participle of denounce
1 to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly:
The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
We must denounce injustice and oppression.
2 to accuse someone publicly of being something that is bad or wrong:
His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy.
If we want to open a critical debate about archaeology we should not content ourselves with denouncing past mistakes and the faults of others.
Resistance, while involvement by the rest of the community took the form of letters to the editor denouncing individuals as collaborators.
Social organisations can create space within the system by representing marginalised interests and denouncing the failure of political and economic arrangements.
All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war.
Newly minted "radicals" mounted the ramparts, denouncing "liberalism" in terms even more sweeping and indiscriminate than those employed by the right today.
Not surprisingly, however, the prospect of openly denouncing the state does not sit well with local public bureaucrats.
He finished by denouncing all temporal authority as ephemeral and suspect in the best of circumstances.
And, of course, by denouncing the marriage of old men with young women as immoral, missionaries regularly embarked on a discourse which, at least indirectly, dissociated elderly people from sexuality.
