Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Under condemnation or sentence; doomed: applied to persons: as, a condemned murderer.
- Adjudged to be unfit, unwholesome, dangerous, forfeited, etc.: applied to things: as, a condemned building; condemned provisions.
- Damned: a term of mitigated profanity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
- adjective Used for condemned persons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having received a
curse to be doomed to suffer eternally. - adjective Having been sharply
scolded . - adjective Adjudged or sentenced to
punishment ,destruction , orconfiscation . - adjective of a building Officially marked
uninhabitable . - noun A person
sentenced todeath . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
condemn .
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Examples
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The sin condemned is bearing false witness against our neighbour, either in judgment or in common conversation, contrary to the law of the ninth commandment.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Of course, "mankind" is a term condemned by the Ivy League today on many levels; instead, we have been split into infinitely small victimized niches for deconstructive study.
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McCain condemned any violence but bristled at the suggestion that her use of such violent imagery was inappropriate in light of the atmosphere of threats against lawmakers.
Think Progress » McCain refuses to condemn Palin’s ‘reload’ rhetoric. 2010
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As Behr calls on old street contacts and his hard-boiled investigative skills, he is led deeper into a twisted society of organized crime and an unknown landscape of "pea-shake" houseslow-rent, transient gambling rings staged in condemned buildings around the city.
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On Friday, Pentagon officials again condemned WikiLeaks 'decision to distribute the Iraq documents.
WikiLeaks Discloses Reports From Iraq Julian E. Barnes 2010
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The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. appears to be off limits after McCain condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that linked Obama to his former pastor, saying, “Unfortunately, all I can do is, in as visible a way as possible, disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning.”
Anti-Goldman-Sachsism, the Führer Principle, and Other Delusions of Crowds 2008
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NATO again condemned the cowardice of the attack on civilians for the second day in a row.
Two Deadly Attacks In Two Days « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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NATO again condemned the cowardice of the attack on civilians for the second day in a row.
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The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. appears to be off limits after McCain condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that linked Obama to his former pastor, saying, “Unfortunately, all I can do is, in as visible a way as possible, disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning.”
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The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. appears to be off limits after McCain condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that linked Obama to his former pastor, saying, “Unfortunately, all I can do is, in as visible a way as possible, disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning.”
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Has McCain Thrown in the Towel? 2008
mattaustin commented on the word condemned
I found this word in my history.By Eric Foner, Patrick henry who condemned slavery but feared abolition.
October 28, 2010