Decry (9)
I believe the answer is:
disparage
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">decry</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for disparage that I've seen before include "Slight" , "I grasped a change to belittle" , "Run down" , "Belittled" , "Scorn" .)