单词 | denunciation |
释义 | denunciation (once / 1394 pages) n A denunciation is a public reprimand in which you are told that you've done wrong. If you get caught skipping school, expect denunciation-by teachers, your principal, parents and maybe even your friends. When you harshly criticize someone or something in front of other people, it's a denunciation, like an opinion piece that appears in a newspaper. Sometimes denunciation has the meaning of telling on or exposing someone's misdeeds, like a juicy, book-length denunciation of a famous guitarist written by a former bandmate. The Latin root word is denuntiare, "to announce, proclaim, denounce, or command." WORD FAMILYdenunciation: denunciations USAGE EXAMPLESBut despite his spokesman's earlier denunciation of Stepanova as a traitor, he also acknowledged there was a problem. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) The online denunciations pile up daily: Muslims can’t be trusted. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) Moreover, where are the harsh denunciations of other U.S.-backed repressive monarchies like Qatar and Bahrain? Salon(Dec 01, 2016) n a public act of denouncing Syn|Hypo|Hyper denouncement excoriation severe censure diatribe, fulminationthunderous verbal attack broadside, philippic, tiradea speech of violent denunciation damnationthe act of damning condemnation, curse, execrationan appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group anathemaa formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication imprecation, maledictionthe act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) speech act the use of language to perform some act |
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