"Very far from it, my dear Miss Monson--as far as possible--I am the last man to decry my beautiful countrywomen, who are second to no others in appearance, certainly; if they do not dress as richly, it is because they do not need it.
"Like Betts, I will not decry my countrywomen, but I shall protest against the doctrine of their having ALL the beauty in the world.
Yet, although Skelton said he would not
decry any good man or any good work, his spirit was a mocking one.
"But it also seems that you would
decry patriotism."
Rossetti and his friends did not
decry the noble idealism of Raphael himself, but they felt that in trying to follow his grand style the art of their own time had become too abstract and conventional.
To make a vaunt of being poor was another of the incidents of his splenetic state, though this may have had the design in it of showing that he ought to be rich; just as he would publicly laud and
decry the Barnacles, lest it should be forgotten that he belonged to the family.
A whole town may be talking of his affairs; may calumniate and
decry him, but if he has no good friends, he will know nothing about it.
Blind teachers serving in Punjab's general education dept
decry discrimination -- lind teachers serving in Punjab's general education dept
decry discrimination
Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists have held an hours-long protest in front of the nation's parliament to
decry proposals in a government report on gender equality.
The state-run National News Agency reported that MP Nadim Gemayel led members of the Kataeb party in a protest outside the seat of the patriarch in Bkirki to
decry the honor given to Nasrallah.
Dialects are part of the wonderful heritage of our country; I have misgivings about anyone who doesn't possess one, and
decry those who try to force our children to disown what is rightfully theirs.
In this translation from the Italian, Dario Fo takes the historical figure of Saint Francis and builds around him a set of fables that
decry the evils of greed and corruption.