Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partaking of the character of a denunciation; denunciatory; prone to denunciation; ready to denounce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
denunciatory .
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- adjective
denunciatory
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing warning of punishment
Etymologies
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Examples
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And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010
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Most people were uneasy gazing at Nicci, either because of her startling beauty, or because of her cool, often denunciative, presence.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.
Jan, the Unrepentant 1901
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And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896
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It knew the personal fascination and the denunciative writings of Ferdinand la Salle.
Sonnets from the Crimea Adam Mickiewicz 1826
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