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The meaning of CONDEMNED is declared to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil. How to use condemned in a sentence.
to show disapproval of someone or something. criticize He criticized the government's handling of the crisis. attack She wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted. condemn She was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
City officials condemned our apartment building and forced us to leave. Recent Examples on the Web Mayor Femke Halsema condemned the graffiti, and police are investigating. — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel , 11 July 2024 In response to the sentencing, both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned the verdicts.
A condemned person is someone who is going to be killed, especially as a punishment for having committed a very serious crime, such as murder. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
viewed or spoken of with strong disapproval; judged as wrong or unacceptable, often formally: Apartheid, by universal agreement, is an inhumane, unjust, and condemned practice. doomed to eternal punishment in hell; damned: At the Last Judgment, condemned sinners will offer excuses in vain.
to pronounce to be guilty; sentence to punishment: to condemn a murderer to life imprisonment. Antonyms: liberate, exculpate, exonerate. to give grounds or reason for convicting or censuring: His acts condemn him. to judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: to condemn an old building.
be condemned (as something) The meat was condemned as unfit to eat. a condemned building; show guilt; condemn somebody to show or suggest that somebody is guilty of something. She is condemned out of her own mouth (= her own words show that she is guilty).
Definition of condemn verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense condemns , present participle condemning , past tense, past participle condemned. 1. verb. If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable. Political leaders united yesterday to condemn the latest wave of violence. [VERB noun]
adjective. 1. under sentence of death. prison officers who had sat with the condemned man during his last days. 2. judged or pronounced unfit for use. They took over a condemned 1960s tower block last year for one night. a multimillion-pound trade in condemned meat. Collins English Dictionary.
