damnable

[ dam-nuh-buhl ]
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adjective
  1. worthy of condemnation.

  2. detestable, abominable, or outrageous.

Origin of damnable

1
1275–1325; Middle English dam(p)nable<Middle French damnable<Late Latin damnābilis, equivalent to Latin damn(āre) (see damn) + -ābilis-able

Other words from damnable

  • dam·na·ble·ness, dam·na·bil·i·ty, noun
  • dam·na·bly, adverb

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How to use damnable in a sentence

  • By the way, this article is not only impious and damnable, it's also almost certainly illegal to read or publish it in Gaza.

  • There won't be a day, inside or out of it, that I won't run up against every damnable meanness that human nature is capable of.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • They told the Deputy that they were in a wretched and damnable state; and this was true, for they were very vicious young men.

  • Then would come the other damnable series again, and the sweat would stand on my brow.

  • I do not know what damnable difference in me that absence of the pair of them for a single evening made.

  • And Berg sat there, smiling, pouring out those damnable cynicisms.

    Security | Poul William Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for damnable

damnable

/ (ˈdæmnəbəl) /


adjective
  1. execrable; detestable

  2. liable to or deserving damnation

Derived forms of damnable

  • damnableness or damnability, noun

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