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denounce

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To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant. Anton Chekhov

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing. Barack Obama

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims. Elie Wiesel

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. Franz Grillparzer

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions! Hermann Göring

So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth)-so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self-mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution. Thomas Szasz

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