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The phrase "decried for" is not correct in standard English usage
It is typically used to express strong disapproval or condemnation, but it should be followed by a noun or noun phrase rather than "for." Example: "The policy was decried by many as harmful to the community."
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I've been decried for a heinous act.
In western Washington, they were decried for being too stringent.
Computers are often decried for lacking common sense.
The launch of Britain's national electricity grid in 1933 was decried for desecrating the landscape.
Shows like "The Bold and the Beautiful" were decried for licentious plots dependent on bed-hopping.
The Facebook group Women who Eat on Tubes was loudly decried for being misogynistic and was eventually taken down.
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"It's what we've been decrying for a long time," said Hervé Gouamene, the president of a human rights organization here.
Bensel-Meyers has been decrying, for some time now, what she sees as the exploitation of athletes and the subversion of the humanistic values of the academy.
Look at what happened to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who bloggers have been decrying for demanding that President Obama strip $870 million for pandemic flu preparedness out of the stimulus spending.
No linguist joins a Safire in decrying, for example, split infinitives, as if it was ungainly that Star Trek opened with "to boldly go where no man has gone before" (note that "to go boldly where no man has gone before" is what sounds ungainly).
Both are businessmen who have used the system they now decry for their own benefit for years.
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