DECRY (decried)

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Irregular inflected form: decried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does decry mean? 

• DECRY (verb)
  The verb DECRY has 1 sense:

1. express strong disapproval of

  Familiarity information: DECRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decry    ... he / she / it decries   
Past simple: decried   
Past participle: decried   
-ing form: decrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express strong disapproval of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

condemn; decry; excoriate; objurgate; reprobate

Context example:

These ideas were reprobated

Hypernyms (to "decry" is one way to...):

denounce (speak out against)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I could not bear to hear my old nurse so decried, and made the subject of such a wish.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)