Skip to main content

condemnable

/kuhn-dem/US // kənˈdɛm //UK // (kənˈdɛm) //

应受谴责,应受谴责的,应受处罚,应受惩罚

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
    • : to pronounce to be guilty; sentence to punishment: to condemn a murderer to life imprisonment.
    • : to give grounds or reason for convicting or censuring: His acts condemn him.
    • : to judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: to condemn an old building.
    • : U.S. Law. to acquire ownership of for a public purpose, under the right of eminent domain: The city condemned the property.
    • : to force into a specific state or activity: His lack of education condemned him to a life of menial jobs.
    • : to doom to eternal punishment in hell.
    • : to declare incurable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Scientists around the world, including in China, have condemned this work, and as recently as September of 2020, an international committee of experts said that CRISPR is not ready for use in viable human embryos.

  • I think that all of these groups are equal, and I condemn them on the strongest terms, and we need to remain one nation under God.

  • Now it’s on a nosedive to the other end of the spectrum—we’re condemning it and focusing on its ills and unintended consequences.

  • He also acknowledged to the federal government that, during the same summer, he tried to help a landlord reopen a condemned piece of property through a pair of “consultants,” including another county employee.

  • To date, only three prominent Republicans, Supervisor Dianne Jacob, congressional candidate Darrell Issa and San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer have condemned the video.

  • How could this dazzling creature have done something so condemnable.

  • A draft was submitted to Marx and he wrote of it that it was "utterly condemnable and demoralizing to the party."

  • Of our Cant, all condemnable, how much is not condemnable without pity; we had almost said, without respect!

  • "The theocratic despotism of kings or the democratic despotism of majorities" are alike condemnable.

  • Stranger still, her harsher qualities appeared where her manner of life was lawful, and her finer ones where it was condemnable.

  • It has constituted itself judge; condemns what is condemnable, resists violence, endeavours to enlighten the masses.