(a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
(a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.
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.
Forsaken
Definition:
(p. p.) of Forsake
Example Sentences:
(1) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(2) Chlamydia is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that severely challenges the patience and creativity of all its investigators--even to the point that some investigators have forsaken this field for more productive and fertile areas of research.
(3) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
(4) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(5) What must have made matters worse is the absence of any discernible indication that Dyke has forsaken his former profession.
(6) But the judge warned that he would be released only when he was no longer a danger to the public and had forsaken his radical views.
(7) The real effect will [come] this summer when it’s clear they have no income.” Back on Ray Pool’s forsaken farm, this realisation is beginning to sink in.
(8) We returned to Israel so that Jewish blood may not be forsaken...
(9) "To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten," he said.
(10) Why has God forsaken us, and allowed others to reach the moon?” And now Turkey stands tall, a voice unto the nations (and Tayyip Erdoğan, from his training on the soccer pitch and a religious school, indeed has a voice, part uplift-sermon, part referee-harangue, though its rhetorical effect does not translate).
(11) The Interrogators and the guards always hinted at the “God-forsaken nowhere” I was in, but I ignored them completely, and when the guards asked me “Where do you think you are?” I just responded, “I’m not sure, but I am not worried about it; since I am far from my family, it doesn’t really matter to me where I am.” And so I always closed the door whenever they referred to the place.
(12) We are so frustrated that the leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn , seems to have forsaken the principle of international solidarity,” he said.
(13) "I sacrificed my job and now my reputation and the Egyptian media has forsaken me, there was some support before and now that is gone.
(14) As for rubbing shoulders with dictators, Ilyumzhinov does have a talent for turning up in countries most public figures have long since forsaken.
(15) Now the universities are committed only to showing that they're trying awfully hard to recruit the working classes; targets have been forsaken, and the universities will publish their provisional top-up fees this year in anticipation of - not waiting on - Harris approving them.
(16) Our study showed that for these unstable fractures, fixation with an angled plate or Ender nails should be forsaken.
(17) It was their third successive league defeat, for the first time in the Roman Abramovich era, and though the owner will never divulge his thoughts publicly it must be startling for everyone connected with the club that we are only in Bonfire Night week and Mourinho has already forsaken his record of having never lost seven times in a single season.
(18) As the power struggle rages, the people of Turkey feel betrayed and forsaken.
(19) "The international fight against Aids cannot succeed if local partners are forsaken when the political winds shift," the letter adds.
(20) We must ensure that, as online marketplaces revolutionise the way we live, laws designed to promote safety and quality-of-life are not forsaken under the pretext of innovation.” The attorney general’s report lays out an argument for why some of the site’s top hosts are gentrifying New York neighbourhoods, running illegal hotels, potentially avoiding millions in taxes and disturbing residential buildings.