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Meanings of condemnable in English

Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.

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        Examples for "criminal"
        1
        A criminal response to their situation simply does not work, Becroft said.
        Radio NZ
        2
        The new right applies throughout criminal proceedings, including when receiving legal advice.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Discussing major changes to criminal law with the new act before parliament.
        Radio NZ
        4
        The questions raised by criminal cases involving teenagers are difficult to answer.
        Reuters
        5
        Last week Spain said the attack appeared to be criminal in nature.
        Reuters
        1
        The idea, of course, is to change the vicious cycle in Hollywood.
        Wired
        2
        They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloods earthbound war.
        Ender’s Game
        3
        To the account of one of the most vicious killers in Europe.
        The bourne identity
        4
        Interests invariably fall asunder in the end; vicious natures can always agree.
        Poor Relations
        5
        The discord experienced specifically in Gauteng has led to vicious political infighting.
        The South African
        1
        Unfortunately, though his size is quite formidable, his speed is quite deplorable.
        Boy’s Life
        2
        The specific case on Panorama, and any case like it, is deplorable.
        The Guardian
        3
        The army was in the most deplorable condition of weakness and hunger.
        David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
        4
        He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state.
        Right Ho, Jeeves
        5
        The aspect of the streets on the following day was deplorable enough.
        Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
        1
        They felt the use of torture as an advertising ploy was reprehensible.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Quotes of the week The behaviour is just egregious and reprehensible .
        The Irish Times
        3
        The most reprehensible motives and the most shocking thoughtlessness pervade them throughout.
        The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
        4
        Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children.
        News.com.au
        5
        He was ready to admit that it was very reprehensible of him.
        Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
        Usage of condemnable in English
        1
        All books which meddle with the faith are condemnable and pernicious.
        The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
        2
        What happened yesterday in the Ormeau Road was totally condemnable.
        The Irish Times
        3
        An action condemnable in itself often becomes meritorious by the thought which inspires it.
        Mademoiselle Fifi
        4
        These acts, are they for that reason worse and condemnable?
        The Queen Pedauque
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        The pottery had been condemned because it was condemnable.
        The Book of the Damned
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        That the KLA had to resort to such condemnable methods of financing is not surprising.
        Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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        There are many variants of this malignant, brutal, condemnable, criminal and inefficient form of ethnic cleansing.
        After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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        Besides, even in the best of poets, Shakspeare and Milton, how much is there justly condemnable?
        Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Po...
        9
        But are such rhetorical caprices condemnable only for their deviation from the language of real life?
        Biographia Literaria
        10
        Arrows, Master René, Burgundian arrows, most condemnable vegetables.
        If I Were King
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        They do not smile on the condemnable.
        One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1
        12
        In either case the property is condemnable, being shipped by the house of trade in the enemy's country.
        The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter / From the Private Jour...
        13
        Pakistan said the assault on Haq was "condemnable" and called on India to punish the attacker.
        Reuters
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        It was the most condemnable folly!
        Doom Castle
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        Of our Cant, all condemnable, how much is not condemnable without pity; we had almost said, without respect!
        Past and Present
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        Of course this is condemnable.
        The Guardian
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