denounce
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/icons/point.icon CRITICIZE, REPREHEND, CENSURE, REPROBATE, CONDEMN, DENOUNCE mean to find fault with openly.
CRITICIZE implies finding fault especially with methods or policies or intentions.
e.g. criticized the police for using violence
REPREHEND implies both criticism and severe rebuking.
e.g. reprehends the self-centeredness of today's students
CENSURE carries a strong suggestion of authority and of reprimanding.
e.g. a Senator formally censured by his peers
REPROBATE implies strong disapproval or firm refusal to sanction.
e.g. reprobated his son's unconventional lifestyle
CONDEMN usually suggests an unqualified and final unfavorable judgment.
e.g. condemned the government's racial policies
DENOUNCE adds to CONDEMN the implication of a public declaration.
e.g. a pastoral letter denouncing abortion
verb with object
publicly declare to be wrong or evil:
〖～ A as C〗 (公然と)A〈人･行為･物〉をCだと非難する; «…の理由で» 〈人など〉を責める; けなす «for»
e.g. the Assembly denounced the use of violence
e.g. he was widely denounced as a traitor.
inform against:
«警察･当局などへ/…として» 〈人〉を通報する, 告発する, 訴える «to/as»
e.g. some of his own priests denounced him to the King for heresy.
DERIVATIVES
denouncement |dəˈnounsmənt| noun
denouncer |dəˈnounsər| noun
ORIGIN
Middle English (originally in the sense ‘proclaim’, also ‘proclaim someone to be wicked, a rebel, etc.’): from Old French denoncier, from Latin denuntiare ‘give official information’, based on nuntius ‘messenger’.