(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.
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.'