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What does hue and cry mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) The public pursuit of a criminal, accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase.
  2. (by extension) A loud and persistent public clamour, especially one associated with protest or the making of some demand.
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She cites last year's hue and cry over the lack of minorities on network television shows as an example of racialism.
People on the left and the extreme left have raised a hue and cry against the Directive.
What irks me most about this annual ritual of royal fiscal disclosure and the hue and cry that can be relied upon to greet it, is that nothing ever changes.
I am very pleased by that, but what would have happened if there had not been a hue and cry?
We raise such a hue and cry when a tree is cut down, but with every heavy shower over a dozen trees fall.
There was no public hue and cry to jail the perpetrator because the victim was apparently an undesirable person.

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