Example sentences for: decried

How can you use “decried” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Conservative critics such as Jed Perl and Hilton Kramer, who predictably have decried the motorcycle exhibit, might reflect upon the fact that the populist approach it represents grew out of the Mapplethorpe-National Endowment for the Arts controversy of the late 1980s--which they started.

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the school into the news this month when she expressed her dismay about online legal education to the San Jose Mercury News . Ginsburg decried the lack of "face-to-face interaction," to which Concord student William Boletta responded, "I suggest that she might want to take a Tylenol or two and get ready for the 21 st century."

  • At a 54-member meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Yeltsin decried the "sermonizing" by the West over his attack on the rebellious province of Chechnya.

  • Pataki and Mayor Giuliani have both decried racism and anti-Semitism.

  • In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic.


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