condone
verb (used with object)
to disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like).
will condone
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future tenseof condone.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“So even if they’re aware that they’re not supposed to condone the way people are speaking, or they shouldn’t be that way in those environments, they will condone it,” she said.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
“Ukip does not, has not and never will condone racism,” he told the Mail on Sunday.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018
And when you are sad they will condone so genuinely with you that you forget your disappointments in the charming pleasantry of their sympathy.
From The Real Latin Quarter by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
For when we feel that a painter has made simplicity and subordination of importances his first aim, it is surprising how much shortcoming we will condone as regards actual execution.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
I cannot conceive that the English people and Parliament will condone such monstrous conduct.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
