Read full poem →revived these comedies, which completely opened men's eyes; and it is now
become as fashionable to admire as it had been to decry them.
Dictionary Entry
To denounce as harmful.
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Common Phrases
. decry
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Poetry examples for “decry”
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Read full poem →Who on us all without just Cause reflect:
Who without Mercy all the Sex decry,
And into open Defamations fly:
Read full poem →Then prompt no more the follies you decry,
As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die;
Read full poem →Then prompt no more the follies you decry,
As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die;
Read full poem →_Squire_.—“You may hold the manse in fee,
You may wed my spouse, my children’s memory of me may decry.”