Decry

Definition: Decry

Decry

Verb

1. Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Decry \De*cry"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Decried; present participle verb or noun Decrying.]. (references)

Synonyms: Decry

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

Crosswords: Decry

Music

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Political Economy

Albania

Today, rather than complain about crime and a general lack of public order, businesses decry governmental corruption, particularly in the tendering and licensing processes, and uncertainty regarding government actions. (references)

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Albanian

qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), përul (debase, depreciate, diminish, humble, lay low). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, flay, flog, lapidate, pull to pieces, rap, scarify, scourge, slam, slash, squib), ‏إستهتر (give short shrift, loiter, look down on, racket, weaken), ‏شجب (condemn, condemnation, denounce, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, rail, reprehend, stigmatize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

омаловажавам (belittle, denigrate, discount, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minify, minimize, palliate, play down, stultify, talk down, understate, whittle away), намалявам стойността на, порицавам (anathematize, blame, censure, criminate, lash, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, upbraid, wig). (various references)

Chinese 

诋毁 (Decried, Decrying, Traduction). (various references)

Czech

pomluvit (defame, traduce). (various references)

Farsi 

تقبیح کردن (Denounce), رسواکردن (Dissociate, Gibbet, Scandalize). (various references)

French

déprécier (depreciate), dénigrer (denigrate, depreciate, detract), décrions, décriez, décrier, décrient, se jouer. (various references)

German

verunglimpfen (calumniate, denigrate, disparage, libel, revile, smear, to denigrate, to disparage, to revile, vilify), schlechtmachen (cheapen, denigrate, do down, malign, minimize, run down), in Verruf bringen (to decry), bemängeln (fault, find fault, find fault with, to criticize). (various references)

Greek 

κακολογώ (asperse, backbite, badmouth, defame, denigrate, gossip, malign, miscall, speak ill of, vilify), κατηγορώ (accuse, allege, arraign, blam, blame, charge, charge somebody with, charge with, impeachment, impute, inculpate, indict, reproach), επικρίνω (animadvert, carp, censure, crab, criticise, criticism, criticize, fulminate, objurgate, pan, reprove, scarify, score, upbraid), διαβάλλω (calumniate), δυσφημώ (bespatter, black, blacken, defame, denigrate, discredit, disparage, libel, malign, slander, slur, traduce, vilify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזלזל (degrade, despise, disparage, disregard, look down on, slight, talk down, underrate). (various references)

Hungarian

befeketít (black, blacken, denigrate, to bad-mouth, to begrime, to black, to blacken, to denigrate, to malign, to smear, traduce), becsmérel (asperse, blackguard, depreciate, disparage, malign, miscall, to abuse, to decry, to defame, to deprave, to depreciate, to detract, to disparage, to malign, to miscall, to revile, to vilify, to write down, vilify). (various references)

Indonesian

menolak (dissent, override, refuse), mengumpat (blaspheme, traduce), mencela (blame, carp, condemn, denounce, disapprove, disapprove of, knock, taunt). (various references)

Italian

deprezzare (belittle, debase, depreciate, disparage, fall in value). (various references)

Manx

loghtey, beealeragh noi. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecryday.(various references)

Portuguese

desacreditar (attaint, debunk, discredit, disgrace, impeach, reproach, vilify), rebaixar (abase, banalize, belittle, bemean, bust, crab, debase, degrade, demean, demote, denigrate, depreciate, diminish, disparage, flange, humble, humiliate, lower, mark down, put down, vilipend, vulgarize), caluniar (abuse, asperse, backbite, calumniate, defame, libel, malign, slander, slanderer, vilify). (various references)

Romanian

discredita (cry down, cut up, damage, deface, demolish, depreciate, discredit, disparage, pull to pieces, run down, throw discredit on, undermine, write down), critica fãţiş, condamna (adjudge, ban, blame, censure, condemn, convict, crime, deprecate, fine, judge, reprobate, reprove, sentence, vituperate), cleveti (abuse, backbite, calumniate, defame, gossip, revile, slander, talk, talk scandal, traduce), calomnia (backbite, besmirch, calumniate, defame, libel, malign, slander, spatter, stab smb. in the back, traduce), bârfi (backbite, calumniate, cast a slur upon, chatter, defame, gossip, malign, put a slur upon, revile, slander, slur, smear, talk, talk scandal). (various references)

Russian 

осуждать (condemn, convict, criminate, criticize, cry shame upon, damn, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, judge, preach down, prejudge, rebuke). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osuditi (censure, condemn, convict, damn, denounce, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, inveigh, slate), ocrniti (besmirch, blacken, denigrate). (various references)

Spanish

desacreditar (deflate, discredit, disgrace, disparage, explode). (various references)

Swedish

racka ned på, nedvärdera (depreciate, disparage, downgrade, lessen), nedsätta (cry down, depreciate, disparage), fördöma (blame, condemn, curse, damn, denounce). (various references)

Turkish

rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify, wreck), kötülemek (back bite, backbite, cry down, defame, denigrate, discredit, disparage, dispraise, do down, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., run down, slander, speak ill of, vilify), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, denounce, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, slate, stigmatize, strafe), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Ukrainian

гудити (blame, censure, condemn, reprobate, toot, worsen), ганити (cant, censure), відкрито осуджувати, знецінювати (demonetize, depreciate, undervalue). (various references)

descrier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "decry": decrying, decrypt, decrypted, decrypting, decryption, decryptions, decrypts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dacra, dacy, dagry, darcy, debrey, debry, decory, Decr, decrie, decrky, decrys, decy, deery, Degrey, degruy, deiry, dekey, Denry, derce, dercy, deri, dermy, Dervy, Deryn, devry, dewry, dibry, dicty, drecky, ducreyi, ecry, ercy, recry. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cyder.

-1 letter: dyer.

-2 letters: cry, dey, dry, dye, rec, red, rye.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, re, ye.

+1 letter: cyders, decury, descry, drecky.

+2 letters: ardency, cindery, crudely, decayer, decoyer, decrypt, keycard.

+3 letters: carboyed, copyread, corymbed, crayoned, credibly, cursedly, curvedly, cylinder, cyphered, deaconry, decayers, decenary, decoyers, decrying, decrypts, directly, endarchy, federacy, forcedly, keycards, recodify, recycled, sacredly, verdancy.

+4 letters: chandlery, clepsydra, comradely, comradery, copyreads, cordately, crazyweed, credulity, crookedly, curtseyed, cylinders, decertify, decretory, decrypted, democracy, descrying, directory, discovery, dyarchies, encrypted, glyceride, hydrocele, hyperacid, lyricised, lyricized, pachyderm, predacity, reducibly, residency, secondary, stridency.