All 9 Uses
denounce
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- The tremendous upheaval that my words had caused made me know that there lay back of them much more than I could figure out, and I resolved that in the future I would learn the meaning of why they had beat and denounced me.†
Chpt 1.2 *denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- The article was a furious denunciation of Mencken, concluding with one, hot, short sentence: Mencken is a fool.†
Chpt 1.13denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- The only people I had ever heard denounced in the South were Negroes, and this man was not a Negro.†
Chpt 1.13denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen, consumed with hate, denouncing everything American, extolling everything European or German, laughing at the weaknesses of people, mocking God, authority.†
Chpt 1.13denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- They denounced books they had neverread, people they had never known, ideas they could never understand, and doctrines whose names they could not pronounce.†
Chpt 2.16denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- "If this man's charges against me are taken seriously," Swann said, "I'll resign and publicly denounce the club."†
Chpt 2.18
- "It was for counterrevolutionary activity," he snapped impa-tiently; I learned afterwards that my answer had not been satisfactory, had not been couched in the acceptable phrases of bitter, anti-Trotsky denunciation.†
Chpt 2.19denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- But I had only asked to be free, had accused no one, and had denounced nothing.†
Chpt 2.19denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- It was a rule that once you had entered a meeting of this kind you could not leave until the meeting was over; it was feared that you might go to the police and denounce them all.†
Chpt 2.19
Definitions:
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(1)
(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, denounce can indicate the termination of a treaty or other formal agreement.