damnatory

Example Sentences

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I lifted the breakfast cover, and saw before me a damnatory red herring.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Now there is nothing more damnatory than a sentence of this kind. 

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King

Before Miss Arkwright's cutting dissyllables and Miss Wetherby's damnatory mien she was crushed.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard

It is not necessarily destructive of the most charming theories, but it is very definite and damnatory as to facts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

Facts which seemed small in themselves became large and black, and charged with damnatory significance in the lawyer's hands.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline