cry down

Example Sentences

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You Virginians are all right; you have your Washington and Morgan and the Rangers, but don’t cry down the Northern farmers in their homespun.

From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by Goss, John

Decry, de-krī′, v.t. to cry down: to condemn: to censure as worthless: to blame:—pa.p. decried′.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

To many all policy is restraint; they cry down policy, and erect blundering into a virtue.

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob

Artists cry down our costume; forgetting that if they have not folds of drapery to paint, that is because they have in each man every limb to which they may assign its posture.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Make one dog down, and then cry "down" to him, checking him if he does not, and pulling him to where he ought to drop.

From The Dog by Dinks