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Decry vs. Denounce — What's the Difference?

Decry vs. Denounce — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Decry and Denounce

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Decry

To condemn as wrong or reprehensible
"an editorial in which he decried the proliferation of cheap handguns" (Bill Turque).

Denounce

To condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible.

Decry

To express disapproval of (a person); denounce
"I could not bear to hear my old nurse so decried" (Charles Dickens).

Denounce

To inform against (someone); accuse publicly.

Decry

To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor.
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Denounce

To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty).

Decry

(transitive) To denounce as harmful.

Denounce

To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

Decry

(transitive) To blame for ills.

Denounce

(transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
To denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

Decry

To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
For small errors they whole plays decry.
Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other.

Denounce

(transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
To denounce a confederate in crime
To denounce someone to the authorities

Decry

Express strong disapproval of;
We condemn the racism in South Africa
These ideas were reprobated

Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
To denounce war; to denounce punishment

Denounce

(transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

Denounce

To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Denounce

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Denouncing wrath to come.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
His look denounced desperate.

Denounce

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounced for a heretic.
To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar.

Denounce

Speak out against;
He denounced the Nazis

Denounce

To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;
He denounced the government action
She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock

Denounce

Announce the termination of, as of treaties

Denounce

Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

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