All 5 Uses of
denounce
in
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- He made heroic endeavors to keep on his legs, denounce his sister and consume a bit of orange peeling which he chewed between the times of his infantile orations.†
Chpt 2
- He sat aloft and denounced their frantic leaps, plunges, dives and straddles.†
Chpt 4
- If one of them rendered lines containing the most subtile distinctions between right and wrong, the gallery was immediately aware if the actor meant wickedness, and denounced him accordingly.†
Chpt 8
- "Dey was damn jays," he said, denouncing the mother and brother.†
Chpt 12
- She was terrific in denunciation of the girl's wickedness.
Chpt 13 *denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation
Definition:
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(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)