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Example sentences for: decry
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In a rational world, the Republicans who decry the anti-tobacco campaign as another appendage of the nanny state would see through the PDFA campaign and reiterate their belief that Americans can be trusted to make informed choices.
In the New Republic , Robert Kagan says the authors' mild policy prescriptions won't solve the problems they shrilly decry.
Although the Fed rarely changes rates during campaigns, the move was interpreted as benefiting Clinton by denying Dole and Kemp an excuse to a) decry government constriction of the economy; and b) blame Clinton for incipient inflation.
In From One Language to Another (1986) Jan de Waard and Eugene A. Nida decry the “clinging to old-fashioned language even though the meaning has radically changed” and as a deplorable example points to the retaining of “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” even though want no longer means to `lack' but rather `desire' and continues with, “Thus many persons understand this traditional rendering to mean, `The Lord is my shepherd whom I shall not want.
Before you decry the faster lifestyle of us all, I will add that I have been a night owl since I was a wee lass and this is nothing different.