Most people were uneasy gazing at Nicci, either because of her startling beauty, or because of her cool, often denunciative, presence. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
It knew the personal fascination and the denunciative writings of Ferdinand la Salle. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnets from the Crimea] Reference
And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives. From Wordnik.com. [The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke] Reference
(catechetical) form, and is devoted to describing the properties of numbers, "odd, even, perfect, imperfect, composite, plane, solid, cardinal, ordinal, adverbial, distributive, multiple, denunciative, etc.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
I have not a very strong faith in the soundness of the commercial evangel upon this subject; still, the very last task I should set myself would be a sermon denunciative of mammon-worship -- mammon-love -- mammon-influence -- and so on; and this for two quite sufficient reasons -- one, that I have myself, I blushingly confess, a very strong partiality for notes of the governor and company of the Bank of England and sovereigns of full weight and fineness; the other, that the very best and fiercest discourse I ever heard fulminated against the debasing love of gold, especially characteristic, it is said, of these degenerate days, was delivered by a gentleman who, having lived some seventy useful and eloquent years at the rate of about three hundred a year or thereabout, was found to have died worth upwards of L.60,000, all secured by mortgages bearing 7 per cent interest on the Brazilian slave-estates of a relative by marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852] Reference
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