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Denunciation

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

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Broadside 76% connected

The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.

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Condemnation 76% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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Damnation 76% connected

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

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Diatribe 76% connected

A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

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Excoriation 76% connected

The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.

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Execration 76% connected

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

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Fulmination 76% connected

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

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Philippic 76% connected

Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.

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Tirade 76% connected

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

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Denounce 74% connected

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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Denounce 74% connected

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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Denouncement 92% connected

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.

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