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condemn
(redirected from condemnable)

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condemn someone as something
to blame or judge someone as being something bad. The team condemned Larry as a traitor. Max was condemned as a common thief.

condemn someone for something

to blame or judge someone for something or for having done something. I really can't condemn her for doing it. I would have done the same too. Don't condemn yourself for the accident. It was no one's fault.

condemn someone to something

[for a judge] to sentence someone to something; to relegate someone to a particular punishment. By confessing, he condemned himself to many years in prison. I don't want to condemn you to a life of unpleasantness.


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To insist that actions that violate these norms are imprudent does not mean that they are not also condemnable on grounds of principle.
``They're aggressively working with local and federal investigative agencies to assist in developing and gathering evidence for future prosecution of a perpetrator or perpetrators of these condemnable acts against religious buildings of worship,'' Cooley said in a printed statement.
That the torture device was locked in the Society's storage room and that Wilson unearthed and installed it in the exhibition hall next to the comelier, less condemnable woodwork, is the salient point.
 
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