0 to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly: --
We must denounce injustice and oppression.
The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
1 to accuse someone publicly of being something that is bad or wrong: --
His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy.
2 to criticize someone or something strongly and publicly: --
The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate.
Protestant casuists denounced the use of tactics of equivocation and mental reservation in taking oaths.
Environmentalists advocate "the precautionary principle" whenever there is a threat of ecological catastrophe and are denounced as catastrophists by their opponents for doing so.
Educators in the early twentieth century persistently denounced the effects of child labour on schooling.
All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war.
The opposition parties denounced the contest as fraudulent, and boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections.
At last, in 1636-7, they published works which denounced the government of bishops within the church.
They each struck out against the inequities inherent in the tariff system and denounced the increasing governmental activism associated with high tariff rates.
More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced.