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condemnatory

[kuhn-dem-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / kənˈdɛm nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


ADJECTIVE
incriminating
Synonyms


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Newspaper columnists condemned Wodehouse as a “Quisling,” libraries took his books off their shelves, there were condemnatory speeches in Parliament.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2025

More condemnatory letters, with many signatures, were issued.

From Slate May 14, 2024

Digging into each one's discrete views on the legitimacy of religion, deities and their prominence in human existence is more interesting, though, in that neither is covertly spiritual or entirely condemnatory of belief.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2021

As the Commons got underway at 11:30 BST, Speaker John Bercow remembers the opposition being "cock-a-hoop, celebratory and condemnatory of a government that had lost the court case".

From BBC Sep. 25, 2020

I have not yet said anything condemnatory of Mr. Rochester’s project of marrying for interest and connections.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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