Day 1,049: decry

A lawyer might have decried the imprisonment of several journalists.

Artwork of the day 
Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons
Otto Dix
Date: 1929
Style: Verism
Genre: portrait
Location: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Montreal, Canada

Word of the day 
decry: to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary

Quote of the day
“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”
― Benjamin Disraeli