denouncers
Those who criticize
Denouncers are people who publicly condemn or accuse others.
The word carries a sense of formal or emphatic criticism—denouncers don't merely disagree, they call out wrongdoing: The denouncers gathered outside the courthouse.
In historical contexts, denouncers reported others to authorities, often with sinister implications: Under the regime, denouncers were rewarded for identifying dissidents.
Those who cause disgrace
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- trollsDeliberate online agitators
- cancel cultureMass public shunning online
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
boycotters · ostracizers · gossips · scandalmongers · blamers · condemners · judgers · moralists
Those exposing organizational misconduct
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- accusersThose who blame others
- informantsPeople providing secret intelligence
opposition · activists · protesters · reformers · exposers · truth-tellers · watchdogs · muckrakers
Those who blame others
- witnessesThose who observe events
- informersThose who reveal secrets
- prosecutorsLawyers representing the state
- plaintiffsThose initiating lawsuits
testimony · indictment · charges · affidavit · allegations · evidence · complainants · deposition
Belief opposing official doctrine
- inquisitorsThose who investigate beliefs
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
condemnation · zealots · moralists · preachers · prophets · reformers · clergy · judgment
shamers
Those who cause disgrace
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- trollsDeliberate online agitators
- cancel cultureMass public shunning online
mob · boycotters · ostracizers · gossips · scandalmongers · blamers · condemners · judgers · moralists · haters
whistleblowers
Those exposing organizational misconduct
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- accusersThose who blame others
informants · opposition · activists · protesters · reformers · exposers · truth-tellers · watchdogs · muckrakers · investigative journalists
accusers
Those who blame others
- witnessesThose who observe events
- informersThose who reveal secrets
- prosecutorsLawyers representing the state
plaintiffs · testimony · indictment · charges · affidavit · allegations · evidence · complainants · deposition · trial
heresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
- inquisitorsThose who investigate beliefs
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
blasphemy · condemnation · zealots · moralists · preachers · prophets · reformers · clergy · judgment · sin
- criticscritic, critics, criticizer, criticizers, faultfinder
- reproversrebukers, reproachers, upbraiders, chastisers, admonishers
denouncersdefenders
Those who shield others
supporters · advocates · apologists · champions · endorsers
denouncersapologists
Those who defend beliefs
whitewashers · excusers · justifiers · extollers · glorifiers
denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncer, denouncement, denouncements, denounceable