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Definition of "decried" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of decry. (verb)

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Use "decried" in a sentence
  • "We are not all "Iranians" as McCain decried that we were all "Georgians" during the presidential campaign."
  • "Tea Party super heroine, Sarah Palin decried the NAACP's accusation and shot back that "I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow 'racists,'" Constitutional rights are quite elastic and not necessarily synonymous with anti-racist."
  • "My essay last week in the Huffington Post Tis a Pity She's No Longer a Whore -- Broadway Armageddon -- I should have received a lot more hits with such a brilliant title decried the ever encroaching use of synthesizers and the like replacing live musicians."