condemnatory
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of condemnatory
First recorded in 1555–65; condemnat(ion) + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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More condemnatory letters, with many signatures, were issued.
From Slate ● May 14, 2024
Ms. Gilman takes pains to capture his complexity in a memoir that’s neither condemnatory nor exculpatory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
Digging into each one's discrete views on the legitimacy of religion, deities and their prominence in human existence is more interesting, though, in that neither is covertly spiritual or entirely condemnatory of belief.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2021
As the Commons got underway at 11:30 BST, Speaker John Bercow remembers the opposition being "cock-a-hoop, celebratory and condemnatory of a government that had lost the court case".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2020
But there was nothing malicious or condemnatory in it.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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