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Definition of Decried
1. decry [v] - See also: decry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decried
Literary usage of Decried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Thereupon the painter decried the anatomy of English horses, and praised the
horses of ... decried ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"decried the popular use of the infusion; this was reviewed by Johnson, m notorious
tea-drinker, in the Literary ..."
3. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"In relation to that decried measure the message said : " Of my own duties under
the existing laws, when the banks suspended specie payments, ..."
4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"There were parts and eloquence in it ; but towards the end he exalted his voice,
and ac t ed very vulgar enthusiasm ; decried learn - ing, and told stories ..."
5. A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm: In a Letter to the King by Earl of Charles Jenkinson Liverpool (1805)
"... decried them all one fourth of their former nominal value. ... they decried
them another fourth, that is, upon the whole, to one half of their nominal ..."
6. The French Revolution 1789-1795 by Bertha Meriton Gardiner (1897)
"Hence, while their work was on one side attacked by the party of reaction, on
the other it was decried by the extreme left, as being in contradiction to the ..."
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