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decrial

[dih-krahy-uhl]

noun

  1. the act of decrying; noisy censure.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of decrial1

First recorded in 1705–15; decry + -al 2
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Anticipating—and helping to sow—the roots movement that bourgeoned in the next decade, “Fiddler” helped audiences respond to turbulent changes gathering force in the early nineteen-sixties: the show’s rebellious daughters carried a flame of women’s liberation; its decrial of bigotry reverberated with the civil-rights movement; its offering of a plucky Ashkenazi origin story correlated with a shift toward a national self-definition of the United States as a country of immigrants.

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Griswold's decrial and slander turned the current in his favor.

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Antonyms: denunciation, decrial, hooting, derision. apple, n. costard, codling. apple of the eye. pupil. apple-shaped, a. pomiform. apple worm. codling moth. appliance, n. device, apparatus, facility. applicable, a. relevant, pertinent, apposite, germane, appropriate, befitting.

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Antonyms: disparagement, detraction, decrial, depreciation. braggadocio, n. brag, boasting; boaster, braggart. braggart, n. boaster, rodomont, gascon, vaunter, vaporer, blusterer, braggadocio, bouncer. braid, n. plait; queue, pigtail.--v. plait, plat, entwine, interlace. brain, n. cerebrum; cerebellum; encephalon.

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"Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shyer, shyest, shyly, shyness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, dryly, dryness."

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