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damnatory

[dam-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈdæm nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /
ADJECTIVE
damning
Synonyms


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Very damnatory correspondence had been given to the world, but it was not in such a shape that the House could possibly regard it as free from suspicion.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent

I shall never quite get over the baneful effect of those damnatory fulminations.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill

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

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird

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

From Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.

From The Folly Of Eustace 1896 by Robert Smythe Hichens




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