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condemnation
noun
1 condemnation
An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable:
— His uncompromising condemnation of racism.
synonym: disapprobation.
Roget 932:
disapprobation,
disapproval;
improbation†;
disesteem,
disvaluation†,
displacency†;
odium;
dislike
etc.
867.
dispraise,
discommendation†;
blame,
censure,
obloquy;
detraction
etc.
934;
disparagement,
depreciation;
denunciation;
condemnation
etc.
971;
ostracism;
black list.
animadversion,
reflection,
stricture,
objection,
exception,
criticism;
sardonic grin,
sardonic laugh;
sarcasm,
insinuation,
innuendo;
bad compliment,
poor compliment,
left-handed compliment.
satire;
sneer
etc.
(contempt)
930;
taunt
etc.
(disrespect)
929;
cavil,
carping,
censoriousness;
hypercriticism
etc.
(fastidiousness)
868.
reprehension,
remonstrance,
expostulation,
reproof,
reprobation,
admonition,
increpation†,
reproach;
rebuke,
reprimand,
castigation,
jobation†,
lecture,
curtain lecture,
blow up,
wigging,
dressing,
rating,
scolding,
trimming;
correction,
set down,
rap on the knuckles,
coup de bec [Fr.],
rebuff;
slap,
slap on the face;
home thrust,
hit;
frown,
scowl,
black look.
diatribe;
jeremiad,
jeremiade;
tirade,
philippic.
clamor,
outcry,
hue and cry;
hiss,
hissing;
sibilance,
sibilation,
catcall;
execration
etc.
908.
chiding,
upbraiding
etc.
v.;
exprobation†,
abuse,
vituperation,
invective,
objurgation,
contumely;
hard words,
cutting words,
bitter words.
evil-speaking;
bad language
etc.
908;
personality.
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Roget 938:
accusation,
charge,
imputation,
slur,
inculpation,
exprobration†,
delation;
crimination;
incrimination,
accrimination†,
recrimination;
tu quoque argument [Lat.];
invective
etc.
932.
denunciation,
denouncement;
libel,
challenge,
citation,
arraignment;
impeachment,
appeachment†;
indictment,
bill of indictment,
true bill;
lawsuit
etc.
969;
condemnation
etc.
971.
gravamen of a charge,
head and front of one's offending,
argumentum ad hominem [Lat.];
scandal
etc.
(detraction)
934;
scandalum magnatum [Lat.].
accuser,
prosecutor,
plaintiff;
relator,
informer;
appellant.
accused,
defendant,
prisoner,
perpetrator,
panel,
respondent;
litigant.
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Dutch: laking, verwerping, berisping, afwijzing, afkeuring, veroordeling
Polish: potępienie
2 condemnation
law The act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building).
Dutch: verkettering
Polish: skazanie
3 condemnation
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.
synonyms: curse, execration.
Dutch: verwensing, vloek
Polish: klątwa, przekleństwo
4 condemnation
The condition of being strongly disapproved of.
5 condemnation
criminal law A final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed.
synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence.
Roget 971:
condemnation,
conviction,
judgment,
penalty,
sentence;
proscription,
damnation;
death warrant.
attainder,
attainture†,
attaintment†.
Dutch: oordeel, vonnis, zin, straf, uitspraak, veroordeling
Polish: wyrok skazujący
Moby thesaurus: acquittal, action, anathema, arraignment, award, blame, castigation, censure, consideration, damnation, decision, decree, decrial, deliverance, denouncement, denunciation, determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, excoriation, finding, flaying, fulmination, fustigation, impeachment, indictment, judgment, landmark decision, order, penalty, pillorying, precedent, prognosis, pronouncement, reprehension, reprobation, resolution, ruling, sentence, skinning alive, stricture, verdict ... show more.
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