Condemn
verb
To say that something or someone is bad or wrong.
The government was quick to condemn the use of violence.
Often appears as...
- condemn violence
- condemn actions
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Disapproving
verb
To sentence someone to a specific punishment, often death.
The criminal was condemned to a life sentence.
Often appears as...
- condemned to death
- condemned to prison
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Disapproving
Legal
verb
To state that a building is too damaged or decayed to be used.
The old house was condemned and was set to be demolished.
Often appears as...
- condemn a building
- condemn a structure
verb
To say that something or someone is bad or wrong.
The government was quick to condemn the use of violence.
Often appears as...
- condemn violence
- condemn actions
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To sentence someone to a specific punishment, often death.
The criminal was condemned to a life sentence.
Often appears as...
- condemned to death
- condemned to prison
Usage tips
Disapproving
Legal
verb
To state that a building is too damaged or decayed to be used.
The old house was condemned and was set to be demolished.
Often appears as...
- condemn a building
- condemn a structure
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Judgment
Use 'condemn' when expressing strong disapproval based on morals or ethics.
Many societies condemn stealing as immoral.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Denouncement
Often used when individuals or groups publicly declare disapproval or rejection.
The United Nations may condemn a country for violating human rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Levels
'Condemn' implies a stronger level of disapproval than words like 'criticize'.
Activists condemned the company for severe environmental damage.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Judgment
Use 'condemn' when expressing strong disapproval based on morals or ethics.
Many societies condemn stealing as immoral.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Denouncement
Often used when individuals or groups publicly declare disapproval or rejection.
The United Nations may condemn a country for violating human rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Levels
'Condemn' implies a stronger level of disapproval than words like 'criticize'.
Activists condemned the company for severe environmental damage.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Judgment
Use 'condemn' when expressing strong disapproval based on morals or ethics.
Many societies condemn stealing as immoral.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Denouncement
Often used when individuals or groups publicly declare disapproval or rejection.
The United Nations may condemn a country for violating human rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Levels
'Condemn' implies a stronger level of disapproval than words like 'criticize'.
Activists condemned the company for severe environmental damage.
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
If we vacillate, hesitate, and do not actually develop these therapies, then we are condemning a whole cohort of people -- who would have been young enough and healthy enough to benefit from those therapies, but will not be, because we haven't developed them as quickly as we could -- we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span,
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Our dangerous obsession...
doomed for eternity to keep rolling the same boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back down and have to start again. So long as we teach young people that there is nothing more real or meaningful in their lives than this hopeless quest for perfection, then we are going to condemn future generations
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How to read the genome...
two letters of our three billion -- he will be condemned to a terrible cystic fibrosis. We have no cure for it, we don't know how to solve it, and it's just two letters of difference from what we are. A wonderful book, a mighty book, a mighty book that helped me understand
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Why should you read "One...
Yet he ended the speech by affirming the possibility of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude
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Paddy Ashdown: The...
and all too often by blood. And my message for you is that I believe we are condemned, if you like, to live at just one of those moments in history when the gimbals upon which the established order of power is beginning to change and the new look of the world,
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How megacities are...
It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,
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Is life meaningless? And...
and was condemned to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill. The cruelty of his punishment lies in its singular futility, but Camus argues all of humanity is in the same position. And only when we accept the meaninglessness of our lives
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The urgent need for...
we do it I think we will find ourselves standing maybe for the first time freer more just more motivated more liberated from this history that is so condemned that's why I think it matters and I'm so
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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
the world of the circus these people under the blast of a spotlight transform themselves and in short they become demigods and once the lights cut are condemned of parasites and I am going to
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Let's put birth control...
Given the option, they will have fewer children. The question will we invest in helping all women get what they want now? Or, are we going to condemn them to some century-long struggle,
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
If we vacillate, hesitate, and do not actually develop these therapies, then we are condemning a whole cohort of people -- who would have been young enough and healthy enough to benefit from those therapies, but will not be, because we haven't developed them as quickly as we could -- we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span,
Video examples
Our dangerous obsession...
doomed for eternity to keep rolling the same boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back down and have to start again. So long as we teach young people that there is nothing more real or meaningful in their lives than this hopeless quest for perfection, then we are going to condemn future generations
Video examples
How to read the genome...
two letters of our three billion -- he will be condemned to a terrible cystic fibrosis. We have no cure for it, we don't know how to solve it, and it's just two letters of difference from what we are. A wonderful book, a mighty book, a mighty book that helped me understand
Video examples
Why should you read "One...
Yet he ended the speech by affirming the possibility of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude
Video examples
Paddy Ashdown: The...
and all too often by blood. And my message for you is that I believe we are condemned, if you like, to live at just one of those moments in history when the gimbals upon which the established order of power is beginning to change and the new look of the world,
Video examples
How megacities are...
It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,
Video examples
Is life meaningless? And...
and was condemned to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill. The cruelty of his punishment lies in its singular futility, but Camus argues all of humanity is in the same position. And only when we accept the meaninglessness of our lives
Video examples
The urgent need for...
we do it I think we will find ourselves standing maybe for the first time freer more just more motivated more liberated from this history that is so condemned that's why I think it matters and I'm so
Video examples
Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
the world of the circus these people under the blast of a spotlight transform themselves and in short they become demigods and once the lights cut are condemned of parasites and I am going to
Video examples
Let's put birth control...
Given the option, they will have fewer children. The question will we invest in helping all women get what they want now? Or, are we going to condemn them to some century-long struggle,
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Tony Abbott
Australian Politician
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
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Joe Lieberman
American Politician
We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.
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James Haven
American Actor
If a building has been condemned or it's left to ruin, I get so upset. I feel something really deeply about it. I don't like to see anything neglected.
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Swami Vivekananda
Indian Clergyman
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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S. E. Hinton
American Writer
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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Augustus Hare
English Writer
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Abby Johnson
American Activist
The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
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Tony Abbott
Australian Politician
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
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Joe Lieberman
American Politician
We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.
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James Haven
American Actor
If a building has been condemned or it's left to ruin, I get so upset. I feel something really deeply about it. I don't like to see anything neglected.
Quote examples
Swami Vivekananda
Indian Clergyman
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Quote examples
S. E. Hinton
American Writer
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
Quote examples
Augustus Hare
English Writer
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Quote examples
Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Quote examples
Abby Johnson
American Activist
The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
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