denunciative

adjective

Definition of denunciativenext
as in critical

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  1. critical
  2. virulent
  3. malignant
  4. hateful
  5. malicious
  6. spiteful
  7. malevolent
  8. unkind
Adjective
  • Key Takeaways These artificial channels are up to five times more selective for lithium, offering a simpler way to extract the critical battery material.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Seeking to acquire as wide a tent of support as possible, Student List purposefully left its position on most critical issues outside of corruption vague and noncommittal.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of critical
Adjective
  • The incubation period for pneumonic plague — the disease's most virulent form — can be as short as 24 hours, according to the WHO.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Pneumonic plague is a virulent form of plague that can be passed from human to human.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of virulent
Adjective
  • Leo’s participation is complicated by his recent lung cancer diagnosis and surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, which had a malignant tumor on it.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
  • These early sequences display a keen ability from Matsumura to paint a tragic picture of malignant, festering grief from a past tragedy, without the need for any overt explanation.
    — James Marsh, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of malignant
Adjective
  • Violent mobs carrying Palestinian flags clashed with police, looted hundreds of stores, and flooded social media with over 1,300 hateful anti-Semitic posts.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Illinois High School Association is responding as an investigation continues into hateful comments against Evanston Township High School students who were part of marching band during a football game at the new Ryan Field last week.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of hateful
Adjective
  • Can someone manipulate them through prompt injection or malicious data into crossing those boundaries?
    — Alex Spokoiny, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Name the pattern Most bloviators aren't malicious, in my experience; it's just become their style.
    — Dorie Clark, Contributor, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of malicious
Adjective
  • It would be seen as a work of merciless autofiction in the vein of Karl Ove Knausgaard, and it would be discussed, as his books are, as aggressive, antisocial, and spiteful.
    — B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In 1932, Carlos (Milo Quifes) is a young man in Grenada at a time when Spain is lurching uncomfortably towards an ever-increasing spiteful intolerance of homosexuality.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of spiteful
Adjective
  • Mahershala Ali leads the resistance against the malevolent powers that be as a rebel bandit.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The films leap from 1994 to 1978 to 1666 as high schooler Deena (Kiana Madeira) and her friends battle a malevolent witch from the town’s past to save her girlfriend, Sam (Olivia Scott Welch).
    — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of malevolent
Adjective
  • There's nothing that the kind and tolerant left loves more than being unkind and intolerant towards people who have a different political perspective.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • October's atmospheric downside Even October, however, can occasionally be unkind to stargazers.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of unkind
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