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decry

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
decry /dɪˈkrʌɪ/

▶verb (decries, decrying, decried) publicly denounce.

– derivatives
decrier noun.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘decrease the value of coins by royal proclamation’): from de- + cry, on the pattern of Fr. décrier ‘cry down’.

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