Definition of Condemnable

1. Adjective. Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. "Adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

Exact synonyms: Criminal, Deplorable, Reprehensible, Vicious
Similar to: Wrong
Derivative terms: Reprehend, Reprehensibility

Definition of Condemnable

1. Adjective. Deserving of condemnation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Condemnable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Condemnable

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concussations
concussed
concusses
concussing
concussion
concussion cataract
concussion myelitis
concussions
concussive
concussively
concussor
concyclic
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condemn
condemnable (current term)
condemnation
condemnations
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condemned
condemner
condemners
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condemneth
condemning
condemningly
condemnor
condemnors
condemns

Literary usage of Condemnable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From this point of view, Christ's real ious man which, examined by God's severe standard, would not be condemnable" (Ibid., Ill, 14, 11). ..."

2. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"... by the victim appears from the fact that a lie or breach of faith is held more condemnable in proportion to the magnitude of the harm caused by it. ..."

3. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Saïd by Bayle St. John (1853)
"—Rates of Freight — The Project condemnable — Regulations that have been laid down — Mode of Supplying Rations — Deserters — Do Railways make Traffic ? ..."

4. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Raphael Semmes (1864)
"In either case the property is condemnable, being shipped by the house of trade in the enemy's ... condemnable ..."

5. Lion edited by Richard Carlile (1828)
"It is asserted to be damnable, which, in more common phrase, means condemnable. It is condemnable, in the eye of the Protestant ; not condemnable, ..."

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