denounced

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Denounced for being an autocrat during his first 22-year rule until 2003, Mahathir was welcomed as a savior after leading the opposition to oust a long-ruling corruption-stained party in 2018.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2022

Denounced on social media as “selfish,” “arrogant” and a “cheater,” she was forced to step down from her parliamentary role as secretary to the minister of international development.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

Denounced by the United States and its Western European allies, the order was promptly reversed by Guatemala’s highest court.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

Denounced as avant-garde nonsense on publication, Johnson's notorious book-in-a-box is, in fact, an affecting, deeply personal and emotionally engaged story about a hack returning to an industrial city to cover the City-United match.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011

A wolf, haranguing lawyer-wise, Denounced the ass for sacrifice,— The bald-pate, scabby, ragged lout, By whom the plague had come, no doubt.

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver