Synonyms:
cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
Meaning: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
Usage examples
Immense bawling outcry.
"Be satisfied," said he, "I will not raise any outcry.
He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
"Oh, for goodness sake," I stammered, "please, do not make such an outcry!
At the unexpected outcry in the rear the Raturans halted, and held a hasty council of war.
Berwin shook his head, and with a silent tongue, which contrasted strangely with his late outcry, ushered Denzil out of the house.
Still he shrank from the outcry and scandal of sending her away; for certainly his wife, if it were but to oppose him, would refuse to believe a word against her cousin.
It is not customary to think of damned stones raising an outcry against a sentence of exclusion, but, subjectively, aerolites did--or data of them bombarded the walls raised against them--
Naturally, being fond of boxing, I grew to know a good many prize-fighters, and to most of those I knew I grew genuinely attached. I have never been able to sympathize with the outcry against prize-fighters.
Running to the top of the moraine, I discovered that the tremendous noise was only the outcry of a newborn berg about fifty or sixty feet in diameter, rocking and wallowing in the waves it had raised as if enjoying its freedom after its long grinding work as part of the glacier.