Sentence:  L'Unita and Hoy published identical <WSD>denunciations</WSD> of Short 's elevation , l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it , Times of India snickered at it , and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it - the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a public act of denouncing