All 4 Uses of
denounce
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- But the warning wasn't entirely plain, and the captain got a little riled up at Farmer's denunciation of the School of the Americas.†
Chpt 1.1denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- junta's death squads, whose minions had murdered Chouchou, had been trained at Fort Benning's School of the Americas; that some of the junta's henchmen and officers in the Haitian army also worked for the cia; that while formally deploring the coup, Washington, with the help of a generally compliant mainstream American press, was busily denouncing Aristide, even manufacturing lies about him, and maintaining a leaky embargo that seemed calculated to preserve appearances but not to drive the junta out of power.†
Chpt 2.12denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- And he was more interested in denouncing the faults of the capitalist world than in cataloging the failures of socialism.
Chpt 4.21 *denouncing = strongly criticizing
- I've been yelled at by generals and denounced by people who don't have any data when I have a shitload.†
Chpt 4.21denounced = 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)