decrying
decrying is the present participle and gerund of decry.
Meaning of decry
Verb
decry (third-person singular simple present decries, present participle decrying, simple past and past participle decried)
- To denounce as harmful.
- Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them.1739, [David Hume], “Introduction”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book I (Of the Understanding), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC
- To blame for ills.
Noun
decrying (plural decryings)
- A decrial.
Forms of decrying
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Words that rhyme with decrying
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
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