v. 25B6; verb
the pope denounced abortion : CONDEMN, criticize, attack, censure, decry, revile, vilify, discredit, damn, reject; proscribe; malign, rail against, run down; N. Amer. slur; informal knock, slam, hit out at, lay into; Brit. informal slate, slag off; formal castigate.
he was denounced as a traitor : EXPOSE, betray, inform on; incriminate, implicate, cite, name, accuse; archaic inculpate.
praise.