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denounce
used in The Fountainhead

12 uses
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Definition
to strongly criticize or accuse publicly

or more rarely:  to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)
  • I picked the one architect you spent all your time denouncing when you were on the Banner.
    4.4 — Part 4 Chapter 4 (17% in)
denouncing = strongly criticizing
  • He denounced the deplorable state of American architecture and the unprincipled eclecticism of its practitioners.
    1.10 — Part 1 Chapter 10 (3% in)
  • You'll be denounced as a grafter.
    1.15 — Part 1 Chapter 15 (13% in)
  • They denounced Wall Street and they denounced socialism and they hollered for clean movies, all with the same gusto.
    2.9 — Part 2 Chapter 9 (78% in)
  • They denounced Wall Street and they denounced socialism and they hollered for clean movies, all with the same gusto.
    2.9 — Part 2 Chapter 9 (78% in)
  • The A.G.A. issued a dignified statement denouncing the Stoddard Temple as a spiritual and artistic fraud.
    2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (20% in)
  • Standing at a tall desk, a big blue pencil in his hand, he wrote on a huge sheet of plain print stock, in letters an inch high, a brilliant, ruthless editorial denouncing all advocates of careers for women.
    3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (19% in)
  • Those who denounced him too persistently were run out of their professions: some in a few weeks, others many years later.
    3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (77% in)
  • Once, in a basement beer joint, he heard a truck driver denouncing Gail Wynand as the worst exponent of capitalistic evils, in a language of colorful accuracy.
    3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (81% in)
  • You have always denounced the hypocrisy of the upper caste and preached the virtue of the masses.
    4.4 — Part 4 Chapter 4 (95% in)
  • In the course of his career he had been fought, damned, denounced by the greatest publishers of his time, by the shrewdest coalitions of financial power.
    4.9 — Part 4 Chapter 9 (54% in)
  • Every great new invention was denounced.
    4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (35% in)

There are no more uses of "denounce" in The Fountainhead.

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