damnable
Americanadjective
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worthy of condemnation.
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detestable, abominable, or outrageous.
adjective
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execrable; detestable
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liable to or deserving damnation
Other Word Forms
- damnability noun
- damnableness noun
- damnably adverb
Etymology
Origin of damnable
1275–1325; Middle English dam ( p ) nable < Middle French damnable < Late Latin damnābilis, equivalent to Latin damn ( āre ) ( damn ) + -ābilis -able
Example Sentences
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Any claim of further metaphysical elements is unnecessary froth at best or a damnable distraction at worst.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
No ensembles have struggled more mightily during the pandemic than choruses, as singers are inevitable spewers of the damnable coronavirus.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2021
Our economy is in a coma, the global order looks extremely unsettled and we could still end up with a second, deadlier bloom of this damnable virus.
From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2020
White House tapes captured Nixon that same year saying The Post company would have “damnable, damnable problems” winning license renewals from the Federal Communications Commission.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2019
Grand visions, even ones that prove as prescient as Washington’s, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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