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Badly buffeted by events and advisers, Johnson was both commendably hesitant and condemnably conniving.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I think I have done the right thing all round, but it was condemnably hard," he said as he went down the corridor.

From Alton of Somasco by Bindloss, Harold

And the veteran replied: “Oh, I like them—very good fellows; but”—and here we shall mollify his language a little—“but condemnably vain, you know.”

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various