Crossword-Solution: DECRIES 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

For, who decries the loved, decries the lover; Yet what man lauds the thing he's thrown away? Be you, in truth, this dull, slight, cloudy naught, The more fool I, so great a fool to adore; But if you're that high goddess once I thought, The more your godhead is, I lose the more.

Soon the report gained ground that the destined chronicler was Kinglake, and all men hailed the selection; yet the sceptic who in looking back to-day decries the greatness of the campaign may perhaps no less hesitate to approve the fitness of its chosen annalist.

Countess, here is the man who counts all equal under the sun, who decries class, and recognises no social distinctions.

Such a loss may not be thought a serious one by the sordid man who decries poetry as the useless product of an art already in its decay.

Without taking thought we see in a flash that it is most righteous and expedient to discourage birth control by legislative enactment, or that one who decries intervention in Mexico is clearly wrong, or that big advertising is essential to big business and that big business is the pride of the land.