What do denounce mean

The philosophic Determinist would denounce the offender's conduct, but would not denounce the offender. Many denounce the system of morning calls as silly, frivolous, and a waste of time. He could not denounce her without proclaiming his own shame, and the clever woman traded on that.

Not exactly, except that I heard my stepfather denounce the doctor as an infernal cur and blackguard. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for denounce on Thesaurus. See antonyms for denounce on Thesaurus. More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced. They each struck out against the inequities inherent in the tariff system and denounced the increasing governmental activism associated with high tariff rates.

At last, in , they published works which denounced the government of bishops within the church. The opposition parties denounced the contest as fraudulent, and boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections. All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war. Educators in the early twentieth century persistently denounced the effects of child labour on schooling. Environmentalists advocate "the precautionary principle" whenever there is a threat of ecological catastrophe and are denounced as catastrophists by their opponents for doing so.

Protestant casuists denounced the use of tactics of equivocation and mental reservation in taking oaths. See all examples of denounce. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Translations of denounce in Chinese Traditional.

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Resources Resources home Text Checker. English American English. Enter search text. Extra Examples The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures.