All 3 Uses of
denounce
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- it was a time when news about who betrayed, who denounced, and who collaborated spread through nervous Prague
Chpt 5 *denounced = informed against someone to the authorities
- It contained words of love for the Soviet Union, vows of fidelity to the Communist Party; it condemned the intelligentsia, which wanted to push the country into civil war; and, above all, it denounced the editors of the writers' weekly (with special emphasis on the tall, stooped editor; Tomas had never met him, though he knew his name and had seen pictures of him), who had consciously distorted his article and used it for their own devices, turning it into a call for counterrevolution:…†
Chpt 5
- And suddenly Tomas recalled the portly policeman handing him the denunciation of none other than this tall editor with the big chin.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)