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condemned
[ kuhn-demd ]
adjective
- pronounced guilty; sentenced to punishment, especially capital punishment:
A condemned man has the right to know how the execution will proceed.
- deemed or declared unfit for use or service:
One of the condemned buildings is going to be demolished to make room for luxury apartments.
- viewed or spoken of with strong disapproval; judged as wrong or unacceptable, often formally:
Apartheid, by universal agreement, is an inhumane, unjust, and condemned practice.
- doomed to eternal punishment in hell; damned:
At the Last Judgment, condemned sinners will offer excuses in vain.
noun
- Usually the condemned.
- the person or persons pronounced guilty in a court of law and sentenced to punishment, especially capital punishment:
We join in prayer for the condemned, his victim, and their families.
- the damned:
The condemned are those who are full of themselves and laugh at their unrighteousness.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of condemn ( def ).
Other Words From
- self-con·demned adjective
- un·con·demned adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of condemned1
Example Sentences
All 100 senators — Democrats and Republicans — voted for a resolution that condemned his interpretation of the statute.
Noted Republican pollster Frank Luntz went as far as to condemn the entire profession of political polling on the morning after Election Day.
We think these attacks are unconscionable and should be condemned by all civilized society.
Only the Republican leadership has demonstrated the predictable and lamentable failure to condemn the president’s baseless attacks on the integrity of the election.
As I prepared my testimony, Facebook was struggling to cope with QAnon, a militarized social movement being monitored by their dangerous-organizations department and condemned by the House in a bipartisan bill.
The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by King Herod.
The group might have condemned violence while still maintaining an adversarial relationship with the police force.
I asked if it was hard carrying a name like his in a land that had condemned his father as the worst kind of traitor.
This approach should not be condemned; it should be expanded upon.
Was he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
In his condemned cell he composed a beautiful poem of 14 verses (“My last Thought”), which was found by his wife and published.
He was at once arrested, and on October 13th tried by court martial, condemned to death, and executed a few hours later.
James I. sent forth his famous "Counterblast" and in the strongest manner condemned its use.
They were condemned on confessions of Islamism and paganism, extorted by the rack, and afterwards retracted.
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