All 8 Uses of
denounce
in
Babbitt
- Some one had told him, when he was twenty-two, that all cesspools were unhealthy, and he still denounced them.†
Chpt 4
- The venerable Minnemagantic realtor, Major Carlton Tuke, read a paper in which he denounced cooperative stores.†
Chpt 13
- He presided at meetings for the denunciation of unions or the elevation of domestic service, and confided to the audiences that as a poor boy he had carried newspapers.†
Chpt 16
- He wanted to denounce them but (standing in the snow, peering round the dark corner) he did not dare.†
Chpt 18 *
- As in church he dared not move during the sermon so now he felt that he must seem attentive, though her screeching denunciations flew past him like carrion birds.†
Chpt 26
- As a result he had been given an excellent job in a commission-house, and he was making a salary on which he could marry, and denouncing irresponsible reporters who wrote stories criticizing commission-houses without knowing what they were talking about.†
Chpt 26
- One evening when Tanis was at the theater, Babbitt found himself being lively with the Doppelbraus, pledging friendship with men whom he had for years privily denounced to Mrs. Babbitt as a "rotten bunch of tin-horns that I wouldn't go out with, rot if they were the last people on earth."†
Chpt 29
- When Babbitt came home, everybody had Troubles: his wife was simultaneously thinking about discharging the impudent new maid, and worried lest the maid leave; and Tinka desired to denounce her teacher.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)