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Aunt Pitty, who had been the first to denounce Old Joe for his policy of retreat, was among the first to pack her trunks.

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 Meanings and Examples of DENOUNCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
denounce
 v.  condemn openly; criticize; make known in formal manner
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean Valjean, and denounce the real one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
2  Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
3  Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
4  As he might be only wounded and might denounce their crime, they came up to him with the purpose of making sure.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
5  I will denounce this place of infamy.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
6  Aunt Pitty, who had been the first to denounce Old Joe for his policy of retreat, was among the first to pack her trunks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Northern men, northern mothers, northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
9  Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
10  Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
11  It was denounced and repudiated there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
12  Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
13  You are neither denounced, nor tracked nor pursued.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
14  But Milady felt herself denounced even by his terror.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
15  Yes, but they will make you then sign your declaration, and confront you with him you have denounced; I will supply you with the means of supporting your accusation, for I know the fact well.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
Example Sentence:
1  Prospective employees at Immanuel are required to sign off on a series of values, including those that denounce homosexual and affirm traditional marriage.
2  Mr Sarkozy, who was subjected to the humiliation of being the first ex-head of state to be detained by police on Tuesday, appeared on television and radio tonight to denounce what he sees as an orchestrated politically-motivated campaign to destroy his reputation.
3  In Washington, protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to denounce what they described as a poor response by the Nigerian government to rescue the girls.
4  The reform candidate kept to denounce the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.
5  Politicians across the political spectrum have denounced the act.
6  Amnesty International denounced the failure by the authorities to take action.
7  Mary denounced her husband for bad behavior.
8  He last night denounced the British 'genius for running ourselves down'.
9  She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.
10  The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
11  His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy.
12  Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
13  The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
14  His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
15  He's denounced western criticism before as interference in his country's internal affairs and he's called on his people to pay no attention.