Antonyms for denounce
dɪˈnaʊnsde·nounce

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1. denounceverb

   Synonyms:
   proscribe, attack, condemn, discredit, charge, criticize, inveigh against, report, decry, damn

2. denounceverb

   To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

   Synonyms:
   decry, discredit, attack, criticize, damn, charge, condemn, report, inveigh against, proscribe

3. denounceverb

   To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

   to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

   Synonyms:
   inveigh against, report, decry, discredit, attack, damn, proscribe, condemn, charge, criticize

4. denounceverb

   To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

   Synonyms:
   attack, condemn, criticize, decry, charge, report, proscribe, damn, inveigh against, discredit

5. denounceverb

   To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

   to denounce war; to denounce punishment

   Synonyms:
   attack, inveigh against, condemn, proscribe, damn, decry, discredit, criticize, charge, report

6. denounceverb

   To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

   Synonyms:
   inveigh against, condemn, discredit, damn, charge, decry, proscribe, criticize, attack, report

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. denounce

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, condemn, convict, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. denounce

   Antonyms:
   applaud, eulogize, vindicate, panegyrize, uphold

   Synonyms:
   reprobate, decry, proscribe, brand, stigmatize, vituperate, defame

Matched Categories

1. • Announce
   • Criticize
   • Inform
   • Label

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. denounceverb

   speak out against

   "He denounced the Nazis"

   Synonyms:
   shit, brand, stigmatise, give away, snitch, stigmatize, rat, betray, shop, mark, tell on, grass, stag

2. stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, markverb

   to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

   "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, cross out, pit, stag, mark, commemorate, pock, tick, nock, differentiate, post, strike out, notice, punctuate, snitch, check, brand, grade, shit, give away, grass, check off, cross off, shop, betray, stigmatize, score, trademark, strike off, mark off, stigmatise, tag, scar, tell on, label, set, tick off, rat, note, brandmark

3. denounceverb

   announce the termination of, as of treaties

   Synonyms:
   shit, brand, stigmatise, give away, snitch, stigmatize, rat, betray, shop, mark, tell on, grass, stag

4. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

   give away information about somebody

   "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

   Synonyms:
   thieve, cop, betray, hook, buy at, stag, let on, mark, stool, reveal, spy, disclose, deceive, expose, defecate, fail, take a shit, frequent, sell, browse, bewray, snoop, snitch, make, brand, fink, lead astray, ca-ca, cheat, shit, give away, grass, break, wander, sleuth, sponsor, crap, shop, glom, grass over, divulge, stigmatize, patronise, shop at, stigmatise, knock off, blackleg, bring out, take a crap, cuckold, unwrap, patronize, tell on, cheat on, discover, scab, rat, let out

How to use denounce in a sentence?

1. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:

   It is the government of the United States that is behind the plans of destabilization and coups against Venezuela. I have come here to denounce it. ... We have dismantled a coup attempt against democracy, against the stability of our homeland, it was an attempt to use a group of officials from the air force to provoke a violent act, an attack.

2. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller:

   Albuquerque is on edge right now, and I want to be clear that we, and our partners across law enforcement, are directing every possible resource to these cases. We will protect our community and bring the perpetrator of these crimes to justice. We unequivocally denounce these senseless killings and stand with our Muslim community against intolerance and violence in every form, we have heard from the community that the fear is so strong, there is a concern about even things like groceries and getting meals for certain folks in certain areas of town.

3. President Trump:

   This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists.

4. Russell Moore:

   Anyone who cares an iota about religious liberty should denounce this reckless, demagogic rhetoric, the government should close the borders to anyone suspected of even a passing involvement with any radical cell or terrorist network. But the government should not penalize law-abiding people, especially those who are American citizens, for holding their religious convictions.

5. Linda Sanchez:

   CHC is here today to denounce the ICE raids ... deporting these refugees essentially means that we're sending them back to their home countries to face possible death.

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