Usually means: Strongly denouncing or condemning something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. decrying: Merriam-Webster
  2. decrying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decrying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decrying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Decrying, decrying: Wordnik
  6. decrying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. decrying: Wiktionary
  8. Decrying, decrying: Dictionary.com
  9. decrying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Decrying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Decrying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. decrying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. decrying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decrying: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decrying)

▸ noun:  A decrial.

Similar:
condemn, objurgate, excoriate, decrial, declaimant, declaiming, denouncing, denunciation, disclamation, damning, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, laud, extol

Types:
bemoaning, lamenting, wailing, crying, bashing, trashing, knocking, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, general, long, frequent, constant, prevalent, wholesale

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Similar:
condemn, objurgate, excoriate, decrial, declaimant, declaiming, denouncing, denunciation, disclamation, damning, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, laud, extol

Types:
bemoaning, lamenting, wailing, crying, bashing, trashing, knocking, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, general, long, frequent, constant, prevalent, wholesale



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