outcry
IPA: ˈaʊtkraɪ
noun
- (countable, uncountable) A loud cry or uproar.
- (figuratively) A strong protest.
- (India, archaic, countable, uncountable) An auction.
verb
- (intransitive) To cry out.
- (transitive) To cry louder than.
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Examples of "outcry" in Sentences
- The policemen caused an outcry.
- The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.
- The censorship led to public outcry at the time.
- The public outcry forced him to cancel the deal.
- The outcry was impassioned and predictably hostile.
- The outcry of muslims have already been seen by the whole world.
- The "outcry" is a corruption of righteousness, a twisting of righteousness.
- The callous and brutal nature of his death elicited outcry and condemnation.
- The arrests led to an outcry across the province and triggered mass protests.
- The reform was partly a reaction to the outcry over the 1944 campaign season.
- In deviating from righteousness into sin the "outcry" is an automatic result.
- One solution would be to unilaterally change the template and await the outcry.
- The vuvuzela outcry is mainly coming from those, like my friend, who are watching the tournament abroad.
- This outcry is hiding behind 'healthcare' but it is racially motivated and part of the conservatives to make sure Obama does not succeed.
- To summarise my response in later posts: The word "outcry" is used, in the cases of Hagar and Esau in reference to crimes other than murder, contradicting your argument.
- Yet such improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current state of our poorest and lowest-performing schools.
- To simply say that they are murderers because the word "outcry" is used elsewhere in the Bible in respect of murder and must therefore mean the same here is like saying that every "accused" in the docks must be "accused" of the same crime simply because they are all referred to as "accused".
- For many years, it has been the progressive movement that has championed advances in every level of American society -- from Social Security and Medicare to civil rights, equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. 2008 was a watershed election, an outcry from a large majority of Americans (not a tiny bunch of Tea Party extremists) for a fundamental change in the politics of our country.
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