Denounced
[di'naunst]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Denounce
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Examples
- She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Kaiser denounced it again and again; its leaders were sent to prison or driven abroad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Will you tell me who denounced him? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He said that the devil had possessed his tongue, and denounced idolatry again with renewed vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had denounced the slave trade fiercely, and blamed the home government for interfering with colonial attempts to end it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The President asked, was the Accused openly denounced or secretly? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring-boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But he is denounced--and gravely--by the Citizen and Citizeness Defarge. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Again and again he denounced private riches and the reservation of any private life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To propose too much, would be to put this man's head under the axe, and, as he himself said, nothing worse could happen to him if he were denounced. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the Old World, scientists generally still declared the impossibility of subdividing the electric-light current, and in the public press Mr. Edison was denounced as a dreamer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Helstone denounced Moore as a Jacobin, ceased to see him, would not even speak to him when they met. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Christianity has been denounced by modern writers as a slave religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- General Rosecrans denounced him for the act and desired to have him tried and punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Citizen Doctor, said the first, reluctantly, he has been denounced to the Section of Saint Antoine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It denounced the gladiatorial shows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his early honest Jacobin days he had denounced it for that very reason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Morally, the author of the _Code de la Nature_, denounced the institution of private property and proposed a communistic organization of society. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let it be denounced and chained up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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