Sentence examples for decry from inspiring English sources

"decry" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to express strong disapproval of something, usually publicly. For example, "The politician decried the decision to increase taxes as unfair to low-income families."

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decry

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To denounce as harmful.

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John McCain, a frequent critic of the White House policy of relative non-intervention in Syria, had said he would endorse Graham, a fellow member of the Senate armed services committee and frequent traveling partner, including on a trip to Egypt in August 2013 to decry the jailing of former president Mohamed Morsi.

They wait for someone to bring up co-sleeping, so that they can either decry it as a deadly invitation for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or scream that you don't love your kid if you make it sleep in a cot.

This is not to decry sports, such as sailing, which emphasise brain-power and tactics (in ocean racing one leading helmsman was Sir Edward Heath, a pot-bellied former British prime minister), or motor-racing and skiing, with their mix of balance, courage and technology.

They may decry today's revelations, but they have no right to express surprise at them.

They do not mention the Lisbon treaty.In this section The export model sputters Put asunder Not working Neighbourhood watching An unloved parliament ReprintsOther leaders decry the practice of packing the European Parliament with failed politicians and cronies.

The shorter flights of fancy are fun, but the longer they go on the more the reader begins to side with the characters who decry the "mystic-mumbo".

The blue thread frays How politicians are unlike America Ranchers v bison-huggers ReprintsThousands of New Yorkers took to the streets to decry a grand jury's decision in December not to indict the cop who choked Garner, a street vendor of untaxed cigarettes, to death.

Procedural liberal philosophers, such as the late John Rawls, decry large inequalities in wealth not because such unequal patterns of holdings are inherently objectionable, but because unequal economic power translates into unequal political power, rendering unfair the procedures of democratic decision-making which ultimately determine the rules of the game.

On the one hand they expect "Big Pharma" to deliver ever more effective cures for the ills that beset them; on the other they decry the vast profits that the industry makes as in some way exploitative.

And it is surely reasonable for him to decry the "awful divide" between Russia's rich and poor.

They were out in force on May 31st, when as many as 300,000 people marched through Algiers to decry police brutality in Kabylia, the Berber-speaking region to the east of the capital.

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