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Condemnable

adjective
1.
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.  Synonyms: criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious.  "A deplorable act of violence" , "Adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"






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"Condemnable" Quotes from Famous Books



... of any creed, but of the complicated nature of human affairs, that rules of conduct cannot be so framed as to require no exceptions, and that hardly any kind of action can safely be laid down as either always obligatory or always condemnable. There is no ethical creed which does not temper the rigidity of its laws, by giving a certain latitude, under the moral responsibility of the agent, for accommodation to peculiarities of circumstances; and under every creed, at the opening thus made, self-deception and ...
— Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill

... denominations. The Lutherans, were not behind hand with their adversaries, in acrimony, of style; they recriminated with vehemence, and charged their accusers with instances of misconduct, different in kind, but equally condemnable. They reproached them with having dealt disingenuously, by disguising, under ambiguous expressions, the real doctrine of the Reformed churches; they observed further, that their adversaries, notwithstanding their consummate ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler

... Harvey his conduct is often condemnable, and last night he made my words good; but the opinions of such unbelievers is not very consequential; yet it is dreadful to think how he behaves at times: now, when he threw away ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper



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