1. to condemn openly 2. to depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor
Another word from an article by David Remnick in the New Yorker: “As if by magic, Party regulars were suddenly decrying the emptiness at the core of things. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, publicly unloaded (three years too late) on the Bush Administration for ‘cowboyism’ in its foreign policy, for the duplicitous marshalling and manipulation of intelligence to sell the invasion of Iraq…”