What's the difference between commend and condemn?

Commend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
  • (v. t.) To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
  • (v. t.) To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.
  • (v. t.) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.
  • (n.) Commendation; praise.
  • (n.) Compliments; greetings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
  • (2) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (3) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
  • (4) Furthermore, rodents frequently develop immunity to, and become carriers of, these organisms, and there is little to commend their use, except in lightly populated areas where control is infrequently applied.
  • (5) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
  • (6) Channel 4 News is to be commended for pioneering this move, particularly as a mere 0.4% of British journalists are Muslim , according to study by City University.
  • (7) The illustrated format was commended by students for its clinical relevance but certain problems with the reproduction of radiographs and the selection of data have been revealed.
  • (8) Patients, family members, and a physician wrote letters of commendation regardless of the LOS, payer source, total charges, time spent with the patient, and personnel who provided the care.
  • (9) The satisfactory results commend the procedure, which has yet to gain global acceptance.
  • (10) Whatever the answer, this is a brave move and I commend her.
  • (11) The president then commended Jackson as “proof of what a young person can accomplish free of drink or drug abuse”.
  • (12) The problems of monitoring children whilst they receive radiotherapy under general anaesthesia are discussed, the merits of different methods are reviewed and the use of the capnograph is commended.
  • (13) "We are managing an unprecedented situation and all the staff involved should be commended for their dedication and hard work during this difficult time," said a Prison Service spokesperson.
  • (14) Bryant told the committee that he commended the current Yard inquiry under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers.
  • (15) Glasgow city council and the emergency services are also to be commended, firstly for their rigorous scrutiny of the proposal and secondly for having the courage to grant the first approval.
  • (16) President Obama, while commendably showing her mercy, also oversaw a justice department that prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined, while casting an unmistakable chill over investigative reporting and press freedom.
  • (17) It said the bishop was "commended" to it by the then archbishop of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini.
  • (18) "We commend our soldiers for exhibiting resolve even while under heavy fire."
  • (19) Two criteria (willingness and medical benefit) are commended in the context of initiating treatment, while three distinctions (willing v unwilling, passive v active, and terminal v nonterminal) are found to be particularly helpful when deciding if treatment should be terminated.
  • (20) Work in Europe and the US over the past two years has commended aspirin as an anti-blood clotting agent for heart and stroke sufferers.

Condemn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
  • (v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
  • (v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
  • (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
  • (v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (2) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (3) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
  • (4) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (5) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (6) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
  • (7) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
  • (8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
  • (9) The US initially condemned the 2009 coup in Honduras against the leftwing leader José Manuel Zelaya but has subsequently supported the administration of Porfirio Lobo.
  • (10) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
  • (11) Bacterial cultures were also made of condemned bursas taken at processing.
  • (12) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
  • (13) An appeal judge also condemned the proceedings and ordered a retrial .
  • (14) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
  • (15) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
  • (16) It’s a very complicated picture, both in terms of how agencies view press freedoms and in terms of Iranian laws.” Iran has long been condemned for its ongoing persecution of journalists, which has been stepped up in recent months.
  • (17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
  • (18) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
  • (19) General results show that middle class and nonqualified working class groups are the ones who most disapprove of and condemn alcohol abuse and, at the same time, avoid to a higher degree drinking alcohol.
  • (20) Finally the new president will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence,” the newspaper said in an editorial .