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condemn English

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What does condemn mean?
Definitions in simple English

condemn Verb

— If you condemn something, you say it is very bad. His actions were condemned. — If you condemn a building, you say it is not fit for use. The building was dangerous and has been condemned.

condemn

— verb (= reprobate) express strong disapproval of We condemn the racism in South Africa These ideas were reprobated — verb declare or judge unfit for use or habitation The building was condemned by the inspector — verb demonstrate the guilt of (someone) Her strange behavior condemned her — verb compel or force into a particular state or activity His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence — verb (= sentence) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law He was condemned to ten years in prison — verb appropriate (property) for public use the county condemned the land to build a highway

Synonyms condemn synonyms

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condemn English » English

sentence censure blame convict doom rebuke denounce reproach disapprove criticize reprimand reprove revile judge criticise slander scold reprobate disapprove of reject decry damn find guilty despise deprecate vilify speak ill of objurgate issue judgement against excoriate deplore curse abuse withhold upbraid tool spurn shun send back resend repulse repel relay refuse proscribe look down on look askance at insult find fault with find fault

Topics condemn topics

What do people use condemn to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion

Approve of something
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize

Conjugation condemn conjugation

How do you conjugate condemn?

condemn · verb

Examples condemn examples

How do I use condemn in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The doctors were wrong to condemn the couple.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Movie subtitles

Please help me, otherwise you condemn me to a sad end.
But as you have greatly sinned, we condemn you. to perpetual imprisonment, to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the water of anguish.
God will not condemn the soul of a poor madman.
This may seem harsh but when a mob takes it upon itself to identify, try, condemn and punish it is a destroyer of a government that patriots died to establish and defend.
In other words you are being instructed, by order, to condemn me just as, in that other case the minister of war dictated the acquittal of Esterhazy.
And now, today, you're asked to condemn me because I rebelled on seeing our country embarked on this terrible course.
What? You'd condemn Holy crusades?
I'll condemn anything that leaves the task of holding England.. tooutlawslikeme.
You condemn everything that doesn't appeal to you?
If we do not find they will condemn us.
Don't condemn her without knowing her.
But I hate to condemn a man on such vague evidence.
Kovac, I still say, we have no right to condemn the man without a hearing.
They were going to condemn it.
Oh, Father, do not condemn me. You know the soul of the suffering serfs.
Your unbridled passion compels me to actions I condemn!
I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it.
I'm the royal ward of King Richard and no one but the king himself has the right to condemn me to death.
You'd condemn Holy Crusades?
I'll condemn anything that leaves the task of holding England to outlaws like me.
Why, it ain't civilized to condemn Christian people to Lazarette Island.
Regardless of appearances, don't condemn Jerrold too quickly.
Ah, well, if you're so smart, how'd you like. for the government to condemn this land and take it for nothin'?
It isn't fair to condemn the whole sport because of one accident.
I condemn you to a state of uncertainty.
You'd condemn Holy crusades?
It's easy to condemn, darling.
He wanted me to kill myself, to condemn myself that way and not go to heaven.
Your very innocence will condemn him.
Should I help the justice system condemn one out of every two people?
Do you have regrets when you condemn someone?
We condemn you to have your head cut off.
They'll condemn him.
You should condemn violence in your sermons!
Do you condemn them to death?

News and current affairs

The Damascus meeting reflects Iran's view of Israeli-Arab peace as a major strategic threat, because it would condemn it to isolation in a hostile Arab environment free of its conflict with Israel.
On the one hand, it would condemn hundreds of millions to live in repressive Iranian- or Taliban-style theocracies.
We condemn governments that silence, imprison, and even kill writers and journalists.
Many Muslims still condemn the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal, because he tried to modernize his country.
Union leaders must study finance rather than condemn it as evil.
Why do Muslim authorities so rarely condemn crimes supposedly committed in the name of the Prophet?
Moreover, the UN should not only condemn, but without further delay put a stop to today's greatest atrocity: the regime's obstruction of foreign assistance to victims of the cyclone.
The law's most onerous provisions are those regulating the terms of employment contracts, for they condemn employers who decide to close a plant to a marathon of legal proceedings of uncertain duration and unpredictable outcome.
Science and technology, after all, are not responsible for the careless and wasteful behavior that environmentalists rightly condemn.
In response I pointed out that we condemn mothers who cause harm to their babies by using alcohol or cocaine when pregnant.
This is perhaps the central lesson of Chernobyl: governments that systematically turn a blind eye to their citizens' fate ultimately condemn themselves.
Some people might still condemn homosexuality, but few Europeans wish to ban it by law anymore.
True, Pius XII did not condemn Nazism during the war.
The Pope believed that he could either condemn both totalitarian powers or condemn neither of them.
She somehow survived, with major health complications, including permanent fistula, which will condemn her to a life of exclusion from her family and unrelieved misery.
Those who cling to old ideological stereotypes face an almost impossible task in reconciling China's rapid growth with what they condemn as China's failing system.
But it will no longer be able to condemn the US for not signing environmental treaties, or point a finger at China for its massive output of pollution.
Genetic labeling may create an underclass of individuals whose genes condemn them to discrimination.
But the fact that sport can unleash primitive emotions is not a reason to condemn it.
While rejecting censorship, the US government should not renounce its authority to speak sensibly and condemn an appalling and apparently intentional provocation that produced such tragic consequences.
Did the ambitions of the Lisbon treaty's designers condemn it to failure?
It doesn't condemn the EU, but as French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to say, it doesn't save it, either.
And international forums like the United Nations Security Council must condemn Israel's refusal to end its 47-year occupation, making it clear that the country will no longer benefit from a diplomatic double standard.
Failure to reach global agreement would condemn all to collective disaster.
There is a seemingly universal belief that America should absolutely refrain from military action, condemn the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, and express moral solidarity with the Iranian people.
Complex financial capitalism is here to stay, and we all have to learn to live with it. Union leaders must study finance rather than condemn it as evil.
To preempt young Palestinians' wrath, he has refused to condemn their terror campaign and indirectly fueled anger over Israel's supposed violation of the status quo on the Temple Mount.
Given Francis's long record of friendship with Jews, and his understanding of their religion and culture, no Israeli politician can possibly condemn him as an anti-Semite.

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