All 12 Uses of
denounce
in
1984, by Orwell
- He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life.†
p. 12.8denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — 'child hero' was the phrase generally used — had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.†
p. 25.0denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.†
p. 44.8
- He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much.†
p. 46.2denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies.†
p. 46.9denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.†
p. 54.3denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- He thought it with a kind of sadness, although well knowing that Syme despised him and slightly disliked him, and was fully capable of denouncing him as a thought-criminal if he saw any reason for doing so.†
p. 54.9
- The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.†
p. 58.9
- Within two years those children would be denouncing her to the Thought Police.†
p. 61.1denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- And you thought that if I had a quarter of a chance I'd denounce you as a thought-criminal and get you killed off?'†
p. 121.3
- Katharine would unquestionably have denounced him to the Thought Police if she had not happened to be too stupid to detect the unorthodoxy of his opinions.
p. 133.9 *denounced = informed against him (turned him in)
- 'Who denounced you?' said Winston.†
p. 233.8denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
Definition:
to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)