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7 total sentences available.
I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
Source: tatoeba (393585)
On Earth, policymakers decried the "all-in-one-basket" doctrine of the Earth Is Our Home Society.
Source: tatoeba (1592682)
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Source: tatoeba (7799799)
Yanni's films were decried as a poison designed to corrupt people.
Source: tatoeba (10158423)
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Closest matches include censure, condemn, condemned, criticize, criticized.
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