Denunciation
noun
The act of publicly criticizing or accusing someone or something as wrong or evil.
The politician was the subject of public denunciation after the scandal was revealed.
Often appears as...
- public denunciation
- harsh denunciation
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Formal
noun
The act of reporting someone to the authorities for a crime.
His denunciation of the criminal to the police led to an arrest.
Often appears as...
- legal denunciation
- anonymous denunciation
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The act of publicly criticizing or accusing someone or something as wrong or evil.
The politician was the subject of public denunciation after the scandal was revealed.
Often appears as...
- public denunciation
- harsh denunciation
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The act of reporting someone to the authorities for a crime.
His denunciation of the criminal to the police led to an arrest.
Often appears as...
- legal denunciation
- anonymous denunciation
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Denunciation carries a strong negative connotation, suggesting disapproval and condemnation.
Her denunciation of the company's practices sparked widespread outrage.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Publicly
Denunciation often involves a public statement. It's not typically done privately.
The editorial included a fierce denunciation of government corruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Perspective
The concept of denunciation might feature differently in various cultures and political systems.
The film was met with denunciation in multiple countries for its provocative content.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Denunciation carries a strong negative connotation, suggesting disapproval and condemnation.
Her denunciation of the company's practices sparked widespread outrage.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Publicly
Denunciation often involves a public statement. It's not typically done privately.
The editorial included a fierce denunciation of government corruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Perspective
The concept of denunciation might feature differently in various cultures and political systems.
The film was met with denunciation in multiple countries for its provocative content.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Denunciation carries a strong negative connotation, suggesting disapproval and condemnation.
Her denunciation of the company's practices sparked widespread outrage.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Publicly
Denunciation often involves a public statement. It's not typically done privately.
The editorial included a fierce denunciation of government corruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Perspective
The concept of denunciation might feature differently in various cultures and political systems.
The film was met with denunciation in multiple countries for its provocative content.
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Samantha Power: Shaking...
but of course, at that time you don't know how long it's going to last. And the journalist said, why is there so little response out of Washington? Why no hearings, no denunciations, no people getting arrested in front of the Rwandan embassy
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Black Women and the...
relationships with white suffragists holy even as they are strained even as they are tried by racism and so in this way um yes there are moments when you know outright denunciation of um policies and views
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Samantha Power: Shaking...
but of course, at that time you don't know how long it's going to last. And the journalist said, why is there so little response out of Washington? Why no hearings, no denunciations, no people getting arrested in front of the Rwandan embassy
Video examples
Black Women and the...
relationships with white suffragists holy even as they are strained even as they are tried by racism and so in this way um yes there are moments when you know outright denunciation of um policies and views
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Quote examples
Faith Salie
American Journalist
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.
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Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan Journalist
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.
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Norman Davies
British Historian
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
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Camilo Jose Cela
Spanish Writer
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Quote examples
Faith Salie
American Journalist
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.
Quote examples
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Quote examples
Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
Quote examples
John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.
Quote examples
Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan Journalist
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
Quote examples
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.
Quote examples
Norman Davies
British Historian
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.
Quote examples
Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Quote examples
Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
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Camilo Jose Cela
Spanish Writer
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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