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Condemn

verb

(past & past part. condemned; pres. part. condemning)

Express strong disapproval of. Synonyms: decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate. "These ideas were reprobated"

Declare or judge unfit for use or habitation.

Compel or force into a particular state or activity.

Demonstrate the guilt of (someone).

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law. Synonyms: doom, sentence.

Appropriate (property) for public use.

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"Condemn" Quotes from Famous Books

... stage—in good time, that he did not live to this our age of seriousness. The fidgety pleasant old Teazle King too is gone in good time. His manner would scarce have passed current in our day. We must love or hate—acquit or condemn—censure or pity—exert our detestable coxcombry of moral judgment upon every thing. Joseph Surface, to go down now, must be a downright revolting villain—no compromise—his first appearance must shock and give horror—his specious plausibilities, which the pleasurable ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... to show that the religion of Greece, as embraced by the people, did not prevent or even condemn those social evils that are the greatest blot on enlightened civilization. It did not discourage slavery, the direst evil which ever afflicted humanity; it did not elevate woman to her true position at home or in public; it ridiculed those passive virtues ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord

... that the women prefer a vulgar-fraction of a man, an Eskimo equity in connubial bliss, to spearing walrus on their own account is a significant factor in the problem. And before we piously condemn either the lord or the lady in the case, it is well that we adjust our judgment to the latitude of 68 deg. North and take cognizance of the fact that no seductive "Want Columns" in the daily press here offer ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... not so very many of ourselves, as yet. There will be twice as many of us in a few years, and very much less than half as much capital. Understand above all that we are getting into bad habits— habits we should despise in a corporation, and condemn by very bad names in any individual ...

— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... had lost interest in the white horse as well as in his master. That was the construction which Dade pessimistically put upon her smiling assurance that she could never be so selfish as to take Senor Hunter's wonderful Surry and condemn him to some commonplace caballo; though she gave also a better reason than that, which was that her own horse was already saddled—witness the peon leading the animal into the patio at that very moment—and that an exchange would mean delay. Dade took both reasons smilingly, ...

— The Gringos • B. M. Bower

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