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発音

• IPA: /dɪˈkɹaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

decry (third-person singular simple present decries, present participle decrying, simple past and past participle decried)

1. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
   • 1739, [David Hume], “Introduction”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book I (Of the Understanding), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC:

     Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 474:

     While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.

   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 47–48:

     For London, Beeching decries the low fares, resulting in an inability to justify investment in capacity enhancement despite severe overcrowding.

2. (transitive) To blame for ills.

派生語

参照

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 114
• “decry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “decry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “decry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

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