decry
verb
[ dɪˈkrʌɪ ]
• publicly denounce.
• "they decried human rights abuses"
Similar:
denounce,
condemn,
criticize,
censure,
damn,
attack,
fulminate against,
rail against,
inveigh against,
blame,
carp at,
cavil at,
run down,
pillory,
rap,
lambast,
deplore,
disapprove of,
vilify,
execrate,
revile,
disparage,
deprecate,
discredit,
derogate,
cast aspersions on,
slam,
blast,
knock,
snipe at,
do a hatchet job on,
hold forth against,
come down on,
pull to pieces,
tear to shreds,
slate,
excoriate,
animadvert,
asperse,
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘decrease the value of coins by royal proclamation’): from de- ‘down’ + cry, on the pattern of French décrier ‘cry down’.
