(v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
(v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
(v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
(v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) 4.28am GMT This is the portion of the night where we all say "Oh damn I forgot that person died."
(4) Damn that Beltran, what a clutch postseason performer.
(5) Whatever the level of the fine, the judge's remarks are damning."
(6) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
(7) Mortgage lenders are failing to follow rules designed to help people avoid repossession, according to a damning report published today.
(8) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(9) She recently collaborated on two damning reports into punitive house burnings and extra-judicial killings in Chechnya, allegedly carried out by Kadyrov's forces.
(10) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(11) The government’s flagship free schools programme has been dealt a blow with the announcement that a third school is to close after a damning Ofsted report found that leadership, teaching, pupil behaviour and achievement were all “inadequate”, the lowest possible rating.
(12) Claims that the soldiers violated the Geneva conventions were made in the course of damning criticism of the soldiers' conduct and that of the MoD by Patrick O'Connor QC, counsel for the Iraqis.
(13) Some on the right believe it's a damning indictment of the welfare state.
(14) The culture, media and sport select committee was also damning of the police, saying Scotland Yard should have broadened its original investigation in 2006, and not just focused on Clive Goodman, the NoW's royal reporter.
(15) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(16) And, damningly, she had clearly been dosed with Temazapan for many months previously.
(17) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(18) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
(19) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(20) If we remain silent, the racists will treat this as tacit endorsement – and history will damn us for it.
Damnable
Definition:
(a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
(a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most damnable is that this case has taken place in the arena of medicine, where reasonable criticism of each others' practises should never be stifled, for one simple reason: it's possible, in medicine, to do enormous harm, even when you set out with the best of intentions.
(2) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(3) 10.15am: Jeff Sessions gave robust opening remarks , in which he defended his law-and-order conservatism while dismissing allegations of racism against him as “damnably false charges”.
(4) Also says: “This country does not punish its political enemies.” Amid protests, Sessions also attacks claims against him of racism as “damnably false charges”, and pledges to protect minorities and women.
(6) From the tricky problems of inheritance to servants and damnable new technology such as "lights, phones and cars" the course has it covered.
(7) It is not what you would call a damnable oversight but if Manchester United had developed a colour-coded handkerchief system at any point in the club’s 138-year history, then fans at Old Trafford would now have an easy way to indicate what they think should be done with Rooney: green, say, for ‘let him play his way back into form’, white for ‘take him out of the firing line for a while’, pink for ‘try a new position’ and brown for ‘get rid’.
(8) Jeff Sessions described allegations of bigotry that have dogged his career as “damnably false charges” during a confirmation hearing that was repeatedly interrupted by furious demonstrators chanting: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.” “I abhor the Klan and what it represents, and its hateful ideology,” Sessions told the Senate judiciary committee.
(9) The dream says that if you work hard enough, you can make it in the US, and it is a damnable idea if ever there was one.
(10) The trouble for those of us who see human freedom as a human right and who therefore believe that we have a duty to support people who demand democratic government for themselves is that the choices involved can be damnably hard.
(11) But when something as damnable for the BBC seems to go wrong, then clear problems of leadership follow.