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condemnable, a.|kənˈdɛmnəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. condemnābil-is, f. condemnā-re: see -ble. Cf. F. condamnable (16th c. in Littré).]
Worthy of condemnation or censure, culpable, blameable.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 29 If in neyther of these Anatomies hee be condemnable. 1591R. Turnbull Expos. St. James 155 b, To launch and lauish out wordes lewdly, is condemnable folly. 1675Penn Eng. Pres. Interest Discov. 43 They are thus far condemnable upon the Foot of Prudence. a1797H. Walpole Geo. II (1847) II. xi. 370. 1861 Mill Utilit. ii. 37 Hardly any kind of action can safely be laid down as either always obligatory or always condemnable.
Hence conˈdemnably adv. |