Definition of damnable in English:

damnable

adjective ˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l

1Very bad or unpleasant.
leave this damnable place behind
Example sentencesExamples
- How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny?
- However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade.
- Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas.
- This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
- There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may.
- Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in?
- I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups.
- That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war.
- Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders.
- I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place.
- In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking.
- Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive.
- Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder.
- There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration.
- The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable.
- This was a Friday night of the damnable variety.
- You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions!
- Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
- From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record.
- Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets.
Synonyms
unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible
annoying, irritating, infuriating, maddening, exasperating
hateful, detestable, loathsome, foul, abominable, odious, obnoxious
informal beastly, pestilential
archaic scurvy
2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation.
suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages
Example sentencesExamples
- Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
- Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
- Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room?
Synonyms
accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, Mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous
rare anathematized

Derivatives

damnably

adverb ˈdamnəbliˈdæm(n)əbli

Why do some people make such a damnably disgusting munching sound when they eat that can be heard miles away?
Example sentencesExamples
- It may not be perfect - but it works damnably well.
- She is intelligent and sincere, and remarkably uncensorious about the social services which seem so damnably to have failed her.
- Far be it from me to suggest that, at the end of a parliament, the papers might like to review their own performance in the damnably tricky business of reporting faithfully the news.
- I get to pick up Debbie from her last day at school, which is one of those milestones that come and go so damnably fast.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare 'inflict loss on' (see damn).

Definition of damnable in US English:

damnable

adjectiveˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l

1Extremely bad or unpleasant.
leave this damnable place behind
Example sentencesExamples
- Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive.
- In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking.
- That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war.
- However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade.
- Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
- Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas.
- From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record.
- I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups.
- Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder.
- This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
- Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in?
- Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders.
- The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable.
- I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place.
- There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may.
- Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets.
- You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions!
- This was a Friday night of the damnable variety.
- There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration.
- How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny?
Synonyms
unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible
2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation.
suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages
Example sentencesExamples
- Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
- Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
- Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room?
Synonyms
accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous

Origin

Middle English (in damnable (sense 2)): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’ (see damn).

单词	damnable
释义	Definition of damnable in English: damnable adjective ˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l 1Very bad or unpleasant. leave this damnable place behind Example sentencesExamples How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny? However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade. Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas. This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images. There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may. Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in? I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups. That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war. Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders. I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place. In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking. Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive. Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable. This was a Friday night of the damnable variety. You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions! Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome. From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record. Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets. Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible annoying, irritating, infuriating, maddening, exasperating hateful, detestable, loathsome, foul, abominable, odious, obnoxious informal beastly, pestilential archaic scurvy 2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation. suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages Example sentencesExamples Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’. Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin. Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room? Synonyms accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, Mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous rare anathematized Derivatives damnably adverb ˈdamnəbliˈdæm(n)əbli Why do some people make such a damnably disgusting munching sound when they eat that can be heard miles away? Example sentencesExamples It may not be perfect - but it works damnably well. She is intelligent and sincere, and remarkably uncensorious about the social services which seem so damnably to have failed her. Far be it from me to suggest that, at the end of a parliament, the papers might like to review their own performance in the damnably tricky business of reporting faithfully the news. I get to pick up Debbie from her last day at school, which is one of those milestones that come and go so damnably fast. Origin Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare 'inflict loss on' (see damn). Definition of damnable in US English: damnable adjectiveˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l 1Extremely bad or unpleasant. leave this damnable place behind Example sentencesExamples Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive. In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking. That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war. However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade. Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome. Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas. From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record. I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups. Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder. This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images. Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in? Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders. The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable. I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place. There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may. Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets. You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions! This was a Friday night of the damnable variety. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny? Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible 2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation. suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages Example sentencesExamples Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin. Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’. Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room? Synonyms accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous Origin Middle English (in damnable (sense 2)): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’ (see damn).
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