Citations:decriable

English citations of decriable

Adjective: "worthy of being decried; condemnable"

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• 1931, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, Volume 91, page 196:

  "By taking this action, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has proven itself a leader in a commendable move to end the present decriable economic depression. […]

• 1977, The Ecologist, page 276:

  This discounting of the future as, in effect, an externality, like the environment and the poor, remains one of the most decriable aspects of current economic theory, brushed aside from the time of Adam Smith onward with the cold caveat that "every individual . . . intends only his own gain" […]

• 2000 March 2, Alan R., “calling all Yank National Capitalists”, in alt.anarchism‎^[1] (Usenet):

  But, then, we would have that absolute power that is so decriable.

• 2006, Jane Anna Gordon, “Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race”, chapter 19 of Lewis Ricardo Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon (editors), A Companion to African-American Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 294:

  An understanding of it can give unique insight into other forms of equally decriable discrimination.

• 2007 April 25, "Tony Agbali" (username), "Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NaijaElections] Fwd: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wither Nigeria's demoncrazy?", in usaafricadialogue, Google Groups:

  It is decriable that in the 21st century Nigeria, using our youths whom they have intentionally pauperized and reduced to living in penury, Nigerian politicians can be so obtusely morally depraved and corruptly dishonest.