damnatory
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, its contents were discussed pretty widely, and were said to be of a nature very damnatory to Algernon Errington's character.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
He had fled from deserved retribution, knowing there was one man who held the damnatory secret.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
Our own code has so far relaxed that this circumstance shall not be damnatory.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
