condemning

comparative more condemning · superlative most condemning

1. Synonym of condemnatory.

   Ah, my Brethren, that is a very condemning thing, to sin against a tender conscience.

   1871, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870, page 138

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   Of course, the mites of sympathy, of friendly feelings towards Denmark which are mingled with your condemning judgments, are withheld by the German papers; but, seriously speaking, I cannot see that they do anything but render your concluding sentences the more condemning.

   1864, Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, The Invasion of Denmark in 1864 - Volume 1, page 383

   Ironic remarks were considered more condemning than literal remarks, and direct remarks were considered more condemning than indirect ones, but these effects were independent and did not influence one another.

   2007, Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston, Irony in Language and Thought, page 331

   Synonyms: disapprobatory, disapproving, improbatory, censorious, condemnatory, damnatory, disapprobatory, disapproving

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of condemn

plural condemnings

1. countableuncountablecondemnation

   Thy Servant knew that she was beloved of thee, and that she lay in thy bosome from a child, and there she might have lived without the condemnings or reproaches of men, or of this Generation […]

   1654, Anna Trapnell, The Cry of a Stone

   Synonyms: censure, blame, disapprobation, attainder, attainture, attaintment, blame, censure