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Example sentences for "decry"

Lexicographically close words:
decretals; decreto; decretum; decried; decries; decrying; decumbent; decurion; decurions; decurrent
  1. Discontinuity It makes no sense to decry the hypocrisy of double (or multiple) standards and the loss of a morality associated with the misery of people obliged to remain together by forces they consider legitimate (religion foremost).

  2. We can all decry this as manipulation, but in fact it corresponds to the objective need to increase commercial efficiency through narrow marketing.

  3. Adrian and Yealland rather decry the Micawber line of waiting for something to turn up.

  4. Adrian and Yealland decry psychoanalysis on the score of time limitations.

  5. I do decry that misinterpretation of this policy which looks at the matter from the other side, and asserts so vehemently that the child should never be asked or urged to do something that is not easy and attractive.

  6. I do not decry that educational policy of to-day which insists that school work should be made as simple and attractive as possible.

  7. Upon that footing, Satan would destroy himself, and overthrow his own empire, if he were thus to decry magic, of which he is himself the author and support.

  8. If you wouldn't decry yourself in this way, Adele," began her mother.

  9. Besides the general interest of the country party to decry the conduct of all the king's ministers, the prudent and peaceable administration of Ormond was in a particular manner displeasing to them.

  10. I know that our people were at great pains to decry his courage, after the battle of Culloden; but that I considered always as done upon a political, rather than an historical principle.

  11. He wrote one masterpiece and some five miles of rubbish--but why decry a great work because there are also those which are not great.

  12. Down in Union Street it had been the fashion to decry idleness and the crimes of the rich--the orators having it that leisure was criminal and ease a heinous sin.

  13. Idle Men, who have not been at the Pains to accomplish or distinguish themselves, are very apt to detract from others; as ignorant Men are very subject to decry those Beauties in a celebrated Work which they have not Eyes to discover.

  14. Let us not because of this, disparage science, or decry the labors of its votaries.

  15. It is true also that the pulpit was at times brought into requisition to decry “not only Greek and Latin studies,” but liberal education of any kind.

  16. Luther could not in fact “sufficiently decry the Law or urge too strongly that it was useless to Christians.

  17. It is perhaps not superfluous to mention this because otherwise the strong things some of the critics say might, taken together, give the impression that their main aim and endeavour was to decry Luther.

  18. They praise what they believe to be good, and decry what they believe to be bad; and, in virtue of the prestige which their exceptional powers have brought them, their verdict is accepted and moulds popular opinion and sentiment.

  19. But the war has also intensified the antipathy, and given increased force to the arguments, of those who decry nationality and deprecate patriotism--for these are but two different modes of expressing the same attitude.

  20. Wood Davis of the former offense and of intentionally garbling extracts from an official handbook issued by the Canadian Minister of the Interior in order to decry that country's wheat-bearing capabilities.

  21. They are constantly clamoring about the dangerous designs of Rome upon other governments, and they also pretend to decry the intrigues of the ultramontanes!

  22. He had a little voluptuous thrill of terror whenever he heard him decry every reputation in the town, and even mimic the Grand Duke himself.

  23. It was not surprising, therefore, that this immigrant should decry the national glories.

  24. But you must still bear in mind that what I say I bear out by test, others will decry as false, as their theory is as absolutely opposite to mine as the poles.

  25. The foregoing chapter may appear to decry in toto the indigenous productions of Ceylon, as it is asserted that they are valueless in their natural state.

  26. I do not decry book lore; the midnight incandescent burned over the classic page is a good thing.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; accuse; arraign; attack; belittle; blame; blaspheme; censure; cheapen; condemn; damn; debase; decry; degrade; demean; denounce; depreciate; disapprove; discredit; disgrace; disparage; downgrade; flout; hiss; impeach; impugn; indict; jeer; lower; malign; minimize; mock; play; rail; reprehend; reproach; reprobate; slander; slight; soften; underrate; undervalue; vilify