(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.
Damnation
Definition:
(n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
(n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
(n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now they pit salvation against damnation, national glory against famines, locusts, boils and immigrant hordes.
(2) He had been questioning his own church too, specifically its contention that "all who did not know and love Jesus were condemned to everlasting damnation".
(3) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(4) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(5) Blaaaak” out of my grandmother’s mouth travels a step beyond being a pejorative to having the hair-raising resonance of a word that damns as well as describes damnation itself.
(6) Looking back in 1994, Kael was as accurate as ever in pinpointing her own faults as a writer: "reckless excess in both praise and damnation ...
(7) The economy must be placated, nourished and revived, they believe, no matter what the cost – for the alternative is doom and damnation for us all.
(8) Just as in the 15th and 16th centuries you could sleep with your sister and kill and lie without fear of eternal damnation, today you can live exactly as you please as long as you give your ducats to one of the companies selling indulgences.
(9) Nothing the bishops discussed in Rome over the past few weeks will save me and my kind from damnation.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Purves as Mephistopheles and Peter Hoare as Faust in Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust, for the English National Opera.
(11) 75,000 men were arrested during this period for what was referred to as – in words of euphemistic damnation – “gross indecency”.
(12) Chilcot’s damnation of the misuse of defence resources before Iraq might as well be wrapping fish and chips.
(13) These factors include Demandingness, Awfulizing, I-Can't-Stand-It-Itis, and Self-Damnation.
(14) We’ve got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.” The business is shame and damnation.
(15) The present, often strident and threatening, damnation of benzodiazepines oversteps the mark and causes avoidable misery to patients whose well-being has become largely and therapeutically dependent on the drug.
(16) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(17) A culture of eternal damnation has led to a worrying fashion for a sort of career-death penalty, in which the media and tweeters impose a top-up term on released prisoners who they think have got off lightly.
(18) But particularly singled out for special damnation : Haringey council.
(19) Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
(20) It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that his glory is his capacity for damnation.'