damnatory
Example Sentences
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She gave her damnatory evidence neatly, and clearly, and with a seeming candor and regret, that disarmed suspicion.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
"No, no!" said the clergyman, as though he were bound on behalf of the family to repudiate an idea that was so damnatory to its honour.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
This is courting patronage in a style rather too arrogant and damnatory.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
He had learned Mrs. Stiggs's address, and the name of Trotter's Buildings, which details were to his mind circumstantial, corroborative, and damnatory.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
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
