(n.) The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
(n.) That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the west has little to offer other than statements of support for Georgia coupled with denunciations of Russian ruthlessness.
(2) At last year’s 36th anniversary of the taking of the embassy hostages, which featured criticism of the Rouhani administration as well as denunciations of the United States as the “Great Satan”, Raeisi announced that the intelligence and security forces had “identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace, and detained spies and writers hired by Americans”.
(3) The study says that although migrants will not vote as a bloc, previous patterns suggest they are likely to prefer parties viewed as positive about race equality and immigration – and are likely to turn their back on those engaged in hostile denunciations of migrants.
(4) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
(5) Pope Francis has spoken out against those who use religion as a pretext for violence and oppression, in his clearest denunciation yet of the Islamic state militants murdering their way across Syria and Iraq.
(6) They may decide just to keep her under wraps indefinitely until she, too, succumbs to either mental illness or physical illness.” He said Beijing had prevented Liu from travelling and making a final denunciation of its authoritarian rule to avoid “an enormous public relations disaster”.
(7) With it was a covering letter from a senior MI5 officer, who explained that “we had obtained sight, by secret and delicate means, of a long and reasoned denunciation of the leadership of the British Communist party by one of their best-known intellectuals”, and asking that it not be used without being paraphrased.
(8) Article 58 allows any party to denounce the convention on six months' notice, although any breaches of the convention committed before denunciation will still be liable to review by the human rights court in Strasbourg.
(9) Other purported former comrades made denunciations on Facebook pages such as " Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero ”, and an online petition to the White House demanding a court martial garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
(10) However no common duty to denunciation of secure or supposed incorrect treatments is established.
(11) Yet despite official denunciation and celebration of diversity, racism as a concept in this country endures, adapting and readapting, chameleon-like to the changing social and political times.
(12) A Guardian leader said his speech was classic Dacre: "a white-knuckle, sometimes sulphurous denunciation of anyone he perceives to be the enemy of the free press he cherishes and so resolutely defends.
(13) Shavit is a hawk on the Iranian nuclear threat, for example, but fierce in his denunciation of the post-1967 occupation.
(14) Right now, Iran's denunciation of Saudi interference and provocative offer to mediate stems primarily from a humanitarian concern; the conflict also provides Tehran with an opportunity to flex its muscles and repair some of the post-election damage inflicted to its credibility and axis of influence in the region.
(15) He was following the Arab League secretary general’s denunciation of the way in which Iran in particular was exploiting the Sunni-Shia divide, and using religion for political purposes.
(16) In June 1956, for instance, during the regular editorial lunch at the Waldorf Hotel, Crankshaw, not revealing his source, mentioned that he had acquired a transcript of Khrushchev’s secret denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Communist party congress.
(17) Mal Brough apologises for 60 Minutes claim, but denies he misled parliament Read more Malcolm Turnbull faced fresh questions about his political judgment and rebuffed calls to sack Brough from the ministry, saying there had been no new developments and “guilt or innocence is not determined by public denunciation”.
(18) And this is why Labour’s leaders have been obliged to have their own deficit plan, simply to get a hearing from interviewers and commentators oblivious to Keynes’s excoriating denunciation of similar primitive and failing policies in the 1920s and 1930s.
(19) The Chinese foreign office issued (for them) a sharply worded denunciation of the US attack on the Pakistani border post.
(20) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
Diatribe
Definition:
(n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't understand what was going on in his head when he launched that diatribe.
(2) His diatribes against Jimmy Goldsmith (on the possible size of whose "organ" he once dilated in print), or Shirley Williams, at any rate had no personal basis.
(3) Bercow thanked Williams and admitted it had been "a very long day" and said those expecting a long diatribe from him would be disappointed.
(4) "If there is one thing that has been wrong with this World Cup it is Fifa’s ridiculous insistence that teams wear predominantly light or dark strips," begins Stewart Todd, before taking a deep breath and resuming his diatribe, utilising both the 'relentless' and 'trenchant' styles.
(5) Anti-American feeling in Pakistan is becoming institutionalised at the higher levels of government, while opposition figures such as Imran Khan see their popularity rise on the back of diatribes aimed at Washington.
(6) A day earlier, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of the Islamic Republic's most venerable imams, treated the weekly televised gathering at Tehran University stadium to a stern anti-American diatribe.
(7) She glared down at us, launching into a diatribe about how the press had invaded the Clintons’ private life.
(8) In a recent diatribe in front of Istanbul university students, Erdogan warned against modern-day “Lawrences of Arabia” trying to undermine Turkish power.
(9) In her diatribe against "misery lit" she said she found very little wit and no jokes.
(10) In the opening sequence of Aaron Sorkin's new drama about a US cable news show, The Newsroom , anchorman Will McAvoy delivers a diatribe to earnest journalism students about the reasons why America is no longer the "greatest country in the world".
(11) Their ludicrous “not in my backyard!” diatribes would be amusing if they weren’t so harmful to our nation.
(12) Moyles opened the show after the 6.30am news bulletin sounding downcast and launched into a long diatribe: "Do you know what, I wasn't going to come in today.
(13) Recent viral hits have included a video of an anti-Tory diatribe set to a repurposing of the grime anthem Shutdown and an official Labour campaign video from rising star AJ Tracey .
(14) The rhetorical term "diatribe" refers to the ancient traditions of Roman satire and Cynic moral philosophy.
(15) My work is not focused on the histories of war, the facts and figures; the political rhetoric and diatribes that fuel them; the divides, fears or greed that start them.
(16) The US diplomatic mission in Havana, long accustomed to reporting the commandante's diatribes against American tyranny, was not prepared for fan mail.
(17) Housing minister Kris Hopkins said: "This partisan report is completely discredited, and it is disappointing that the United Nations has allowed itself to be associated with a misleading Marxist diatribe."
(18) Cruz then continued an extended diatribe, accusing Barack Obama and former attorney general Eric Holder of “politicizing” the justice department.
(19) It comes days after a homophobic diatribe which described the head of a United Nations commission on human rights in North Korea as a "disgusting old lecher" .
(20) Caroline Lucas grabbed the wrong end of the wrong stick in her diatribe on the point of the government's transparency bill.