decry

Reconsider your “smart” home: Cameras are becoming more and more common in home appliances, including in smart ovens, refrigerators, doorbells, and toothbrushes—even as people decry surveillance measures in public.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

And those who decry people for asking for help when they have enough money to see them through retirement — on paper — are probably dealing with their own first-world problems every day.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

That led Jefferson to decry the practice of bleeding patients to treat illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Decorating their soldiers with colourful garlands, hundreds of Afghans rallied in border provinces to decry Pakistan killing civilians and to show support for their troops battling at the frontier.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But the homeless estimates Pratt decries aren’t something those two have cooked up in a boardroom.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

Bliss was it to have taken the Rolling Stones seriously, but the artistic progress that Mr. Marx seeks, and the flattening of critical values he decries, were fully accomplished before the commercial internet arrived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

Boyi, who is Black, decries the state’s colorblindness as “a French hypocrisy.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In a statement Tuesday, TWG Global decried “multipronged attacks against TWG … by unnamed sources with self-serving interests” and said no insurance policyholder has been hurt as a result of the company’s financial transactions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Residents in the capital, San Juan, where the taps were turned off on Friday, decried the rationing.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The stunt sparked online backlash from critics who decried a difficult job market where applicants face extreme hurdles to get interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, an Everton fan, decried the plan saying football was not a product in a post on X.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

With her father’s words to buoy her, Katherine Goble observed the manifestations of segregation at Langley, decried the injustice they represented, yet did not feel their weight on her own shoulders.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Her condemnation followed a slew of public comments from other erstwhile allies of the governor decrying his decision to return to office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

A member of Tupac Shakur's entourage was combative in testimony during the second day of the rapper's murder trial, decrying being forced to take the stand and identify those responsible for Shakur's death.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

You can see dozens if not hundreds of news articles every week decrying the damage that these foods are doing to our health.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Chicago-born pontiff has made the defence of migrants one of the pillars of his papacy, like his predecessor, Francis, praising those who help the needy and decrying mass deportations in the United States.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Articles appeared in newspapers and blogs decrying the moral decay of girls in general.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray