Decry vs Slander - What's the difference?
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To denounce as harmful.
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* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:
To blame for ills.
A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
Decry is a related term of slander.
As verbs the difference between decry and slander
is that decry is to denounce as harmful while slander is to utter a slanderous statement.As a noun slander is
a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.decry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 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.
- 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.