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condoned

/kuhn-dohn/US // kənˈdoʊn //UK // (kənˈdəʊn) //

被宽恕的,纵容,被宽恕,宽恕

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v.有主动词 verb
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    con·doned, con·don·ing.

    • : to disregard or overlook: The government condoned the computer hacking among rival corporations.
    • : to give tacit approval to: By his silence, he seemed to condone their behavior.
    • : to pardon or forgive; excuse: His employers are willing to condone the exaggerations they uncovered in his résumé.
    • : to cause the condonation of; justify the pardoning of.
    • : Law. to forgive or act so as to imply forgiveness of: His spouse condoned his infidelity from the early years of their marriage.

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Examples

  • Hundreds gather to watch and toast the Nittany Lions, and though Barron supported the return of football, he can’t help wondering what else he condoned, even encouraged, with his vote.

  • Jeff Hymes, a 29-year-old scientist at a biotech start-up outside Raleigh, doesn’t condone Cunningham’s behavior, but contrasts it with what he sees as Tillis’s own credibility problem.

  • Second, large banking institutions like JPMorgan Chase are condoning and even welcoming digital currencies onto their platforms.

  • Rafael Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi who is the head of the ultranationalist United Right party, last year condoned the use of conversion therapy when he was Israel’s education minister.

  • That’s because people will condone all kinds of violence in the name of protecting themselves, said Christian Davenport, professor of political science at the University of Michigan.

  • Yet violent images are condoned in the “right” circumstances so long as they do not celebrate brutality.

  • The coaches thought that if it seemed like they condoned it, people wouldn't let their kids come play for Baylor.

  • Moreover, neither the Polish government in exile nor the leaders of the Home Army condoned anti-Semitic measures.

  • “The thought or notion that this kind of behavior is condoned or authorized is just absurd,” Sullivan said, almost scoffing.

  • Allegations of church-condoned baby trafficking are not confined to Spain.

  • He condoned the infamous conduct of the police officer Contenson.

  • Giz is somewhat dirtier than Lut'er but the dirt is less assimilated and consequently less to be condoned.

  • They have defended and condoned the industrial exploitation of children.

  • He had invaded the territory of a neutral power and driven off its representatives; but everything was condoned.

  • While the marriage of the clergy was checked, irregular and temporary connexions were lightly condoned.