Sentence examples for decry about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "decry about" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English.
"Decry" means to publicly denounce or express strong disapproval of something, so adding "about" is redundant and changes the meaning of the verb. It would be more appropriate to say "decry something" or "decry someone/something's actions." Example: The politician used her speech to decry the government's lack of action on climate change.

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"Billions among the living struggle to survive in conditions of poverty, deprivation and underdevelopment as offensive to everything humane as anything we decry about the second millennium," President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa said.

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Oddly enough, OPEC seems as bewildered as the speculators it officially decries about the profound change that Haigh alludes to.

And that is why Mr Wen and his colleagues not only decry debate about the exchange rate abroad.

And what does the private-school domination that Major has decided to decry say about the kind of country Britain has become?

In Moscow on Wednesday, in anticipation of the report, President Vladimir V. Putin's spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, issued a statement to reporters decrying "speculation" about the plane, but it did not refer specifically to the report.

Black's reaction to the Tweedy Browne filings was typical - he lashed out at the 'zealots' and 'terrorists' pursuing him and decried concerns about corporate governance as nothing more than a 'fad'fad

Several regimes have started decrying reports about their own human rights abuses as "fake news". Indeed, Burma's government has even claimed that its mass atrocities against the Rohingya ethnic minority are "fake news," too.

It's about violently decrying your past and all the horrible things you did.

The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

The protest by an estimated 15,000 people -- a much lower turnout than what organizers had predicted -- presented a counterpoint to a rally outside the Israeli Consulate in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday, when about 15,000 people decried Palestinian violence and shouted the praises of Israel.

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