cry down

First Mr. Drummond comes, and talks to us as though we were doing wrong; and, then you, to cry down our honest labor, and call it suicide!

From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

We were three hundred miles or more from the high seas, and passing between points of continuous telegraphic communication; so that a hue and cry down the river might indeed mean trouble for us.

From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Harry A. Mathes

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

You ought, if possible, to get before the dog when you cry "down."

From The Dog by Dinks

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