condemnatory

Example Sentences

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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

It has stopped vetoing condemnatory resolutions at the United Nations.

From BBC • May 8, 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

But there was nothing malicious or condemnatory in it.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin