Decry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECRY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to denounce
• publicly denounce
• express disapproval of
• To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
• express strong disapproval of

Words related to DECRY

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Words that contain DECRY

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How to use DECRY in a sentence

• There are many critics, and some of great name, who contrive in the same breath to extol the poems and to decry the poet.
• His work confined him to a few frontier States and Territories, and hence he was a very convenient person to ridicule and decry.
• I do not want to decry the ideas of the monks in order to magnify our modern middle-class ideals.
• It has been much the fashion, of late years, to decry wine, and this because it is a gift of Providence that has been greatly abused.
• Then for our interest, which is named alone To load with envy, we retort your own, For when Traditions in your faces fly, 240 Resolving not to yield, you must decry.
• It is because, for them, composition, as a distinct element of art, has almost ceased to exist that so many modern painters and critics decry Raphael altogether.
• Those who decry Tacitus for prejudice against the Empire forget that he is describing emperors who were indubitably bad.
• One may decry organization and prescription in our educational system.
• I do not decry that educational policy of to-day which insists that school work should be made as simple and attractive as possible.
• This I did at length, and in a manner to secure conviction, because it had been the fashion to decry beauty as a matter of minor importance.
• In short, here was an instance ready to hand for any cheap writer engaged to decry the old Classical Education.
• I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose.
• Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry.
• It is fashionable just now to decry the value of reading.
• Let no word of this, however, seem to decry the value of recreation.
• They decry the play, but in such a manner, that it has the effect of a recommendation.
• Let the world rage around us, let the enemy decry us, I say, Follow his example.
• The Catholic party who retained influence with the lower ranks, were his declared enemies, and took advantage of every opportunity to decry his conduct.
• Having been engaged in this campaign for many years, one is not likely to decry it now, nor is there any occasion to do so.
• And this, probably, is the head and front of his offending to those who criticise his economy and decry his experiments.
• I hope it will not be concluded, from this specimen of academick life, that I have attempted to decry our universities.
• We cannot decry the race-element as a rich fount of melody.
• It is the fashion to decry French memoirs of court-life, and, considering the quaint freedom of style which characterizes much of this voluminous literature, it is not strange.
• They were not the kind to decry a comrade when his back was turned.
• What a quiet world this would be if everyone would smoke! I suspect that the reason why the fairer sex decry thee is, that thou art the cause of silence.
• We ought not then to decry refinement nor deem all connection of art with nature an offensive incongruity.
• I do not see how any reasonable person can oppose vaccination or decry its benefits.
• Sir FREDERICK WEDMORE said that to decry the value of Art criticism was absurd.
• It is the fashion in this country to decry professional politicians, to uphold the doctrine that the office should seek the man and not the man the office.
• I would in no way decry opera, but it is very clear that some of the energy which is now being used for opera might far better be put into the wider field of drama.
• It was once the fashion of the Oxford school to decry Froude as being unworthy of the name of historian.
• But for one prophet to decry the predictions of another simply as prophecies is a downright absurdity.
• Secondly, that they did not decry or depreciate human knowledge.

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