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US
/ˌkɑndəmˈneɪʃən/
]
[ UK /kɒndɪmnˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kɒndɪmnˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
his uncompromising condemnation of racism -
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
the conviction came as no surprise - (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
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the condition of being strongly disapproved of
he deserved nothing but condemnation
How To Use condemnation In A Sentence
- We ask you to add your voice to the growing chorus of condemnation of Australia's refugee program.
- The shooting of the policeman has received universal condemnation.
- The disclosures last night provoked renewed condemnation of Britain's multibillion-pound arms industry for selling to both sides in the escalating Kashmir crisis.
- His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
- Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher
- His condemnation is reserved for cruelty to animals. The Times Literary Supplement
- Anyway, if you establish a rule of constitutional law that the leaseholder is entitled to compensation, it’s not clear why that rule would not apply if the leaseholder contracted with the landlord to pay over to the landlord any compensation the leaseholder receives in a condemnation proceeding; but in that case, it’s clear that valuing the interests separately distorts the true nature of the transaction. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Important Case on Compensation for Takings
- Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
- his uncompromising condemnation of racism
- This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952