It positively compromises me to have so much as the ghost of a person so universally decried as your Holiness under my roof, and you would infinitely oblige me by forthwith repairing to your own place, which I take to be about four thousand miles below where you are sitting.

But I forget that still 'tis understood, Bad plays are best decried by showing good.

The use of antiseptics has been decried in the interest of asepticism, as if the whole purpose of antisepticism were not to secure asepsis.

But he has been sometimes decried on the ground that he only demolished and made no effort to build up where he had pulled down.

It was more confidently decried than his present irrigation system.