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US
/kənˈdɛm/
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[ UK /kəndˈɛm/ ]
[ UK /kəndˈɛm/ ]
VERB
-
declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
The building was condemned by the inspector -
appropriate (property) for public use
the county condemned the land to build a highway -
express strong disapproval of
We condemn the racism in South Africa
These ideas were reprobated -
pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
He was condemned to ten years in prison -
compel or force into a particular state or activity
His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence -
demonstrate the guilt of (someone)
Her strange behavior condemned her
How To Use condemn In A Sentence
- That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
- We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase. Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused
- Mr. Kelly added that it would be wrong to condemn the lack of a parade and then do nothing about it.
- She was condemned to hang for killing her husband.
- Ever since, leftish malcontents have taken every opportunity to condemn the iniquity of holding all applicants for admission to the same standards.
- The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
- Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia