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Decry vs Reprehend - What's the difference?

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Decry is a related term of reprehend.


As verbs the difference between decry and reprehend

is that decry is to denounce as harmful while reprehend is to criticize, to reprove.

decry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To denounce as harmful.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:
  • All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:
  • While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.
  • To blame for ills.
  • References

    * Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 114 * * *

    Anagrams

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    reprehend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to criticize, to reprove
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * criticize * rebuke * reprimand * reprove