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decrying

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for decrying.

Editorial note

MS may have been guilty of a lot of other anti-competitive activity, but decrying the bundling of the browser with the OS is just silly and naive.

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Quick take

A decrial.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of decrying gathered in one view.

noun

A decrial.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for decrying.

noun

A decrial.

Example sentences

1

MS may have been guilty of a lot of other anti-competitive activity, but decrying the bundling of the browser with the OS is just silly and naive.

2

It's somewhat ironic to have a thread decrying unpaid community contributions appear on Hacker News (or any other forum).

3

Just waiting for the first protesters decrying FrankenCloth and carrying pictures of giant spiders;<).

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And decrying a problem only after he stopped getting paid for perpetuating it?

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Yeah, soon we should expect articles decrying professionals who took out student loans to get thru college!!

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Old 'conservative' people decrying taxes and welfare yet exploiting it as much as possible for themselves, and organizing in force whenever it is threatened.

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Read the obituary of Bob Randall currently on their front page for one instance of the Economist decrying institutional racism in a thoroughly heartfelt manner.

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Right before Snowdens revalations, the US were decrying Chinese spying and demanding a common standard of behaviour on the Internet which precluded that kind of thing.

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Then he writes a rambling article decrying the open defecation & air quality (mixing two tangentially related issues) after his son has an entirely predictable attack.

10

The Moynihan report decrying the break down of black families was released in 1965, before the drug war, at a time when incarceration per crime committed was approaching all-time lows.

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Here you are, inappropriately critically analyzing the appropriateness of critical analysis and disrespecting the real expressions of others' feelings while decrying how the Internet disrespects the real expressions of others' feelings.

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As someone who uses both (vim and IntelliJ): install boat-load of addons to try and replicate the IDEs they're decrying The attraction is that vim is usually far more customizable and supports modeful editing (yes, there is IdeaVim, but it is quite a leaky abstraction).

Quote examples

1

That is debatable, which is shown by the parent comment decrying the "bewildering zoo" of HOFs.

2

But what makes me the most pessimistic about Sweden’s future is how the social fabric itself has been undermined." If the "social fabric" of a country amounts to it's prior ethnic homogeneity, then decrying it's unraveling amounts to being scared of people coming from the outside.

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I'm trying to figure out what you think I believe, and the nearest I can come is that you seem to think I'm judging women for behavior that I find distasteful because I just can't comprehend what life is like in the "dark pits in which people live." Let me be clear: I am not decrying the behavior of women.

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You sort of ironically demonstrate the exact sort of antropomorphization I am decrying, which is the casual (as in, unexamined) assumption that the only complex state which can exist is human consciousness (or, if you prefer, "consciousness, which is the same thing that humans have").

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use decrying in a sentence?

MS may have been guilty of a lot of other anti-competitive activity, but decrying the bundling of the browser with the OS is just silly and naive.

What does decrying mean?

A decrial.

What part of speech is decrying?

decrying is commonly used as noun.