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词汇 condemning
释义 condemning
present participle ofcondemn
condemn
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈdem/ us /kənˈdem/
C2
to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons: (通常指出于道义而)谴责,指责
The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.人们谴责这一恐怖行径是野蛮和懦弱的行为。
The film was condemned for its sexism.这部影片被指责带有性别歧视。
Synonyms
attack(CRITICIZE)
castigateformal
censureformal
chastise(CRITICIZE)formal
criticize
damn(BLAME)
decryformal
denounce(CRITICIZE)
excoriateformal
railformal
revileformal
slaminformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to show disapproval of someone or something
criticizeHe criticized the government's handling of the crisis.
attackShe wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted.
condemnShe was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
denounceThe government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
come under fireThe government programme has come under fire for mismanaging funds.
She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds .
The president took the unusual step of altering his prepared speech in order to condemn the terrorist attack.总统为了谴责恐怖主义袭击,采取了极不寻常的做法,临时更改了事先准备好的讲稿。
Her refusal to condemn the violence left her open to the charge of positive support for the campaign .
Prince Charles condemned the assertively modernist style of architecture.
The Opposition has condemned the government's proposed tax increases.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
poorly
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher

Phrasal verbs


condemn someone to (do) something
condemn someone to something

Examples of condemning


condemning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Men had plenty of "people-to-people" interaction with women while condemning them to second-class citizenship.
From a care perspective, morality requires not hurting others, condemning all violence and exploitation, and nurturing relationships and connections between persons.
Before condemning them or deriding such practices, we recall that changes of method were aimed at improving the precision of the figures.
He did so by condemning their backers as 'presbyterians ' and explicitly aligning them with these authors.
When discussing the novel itself, rather than condemning it because of the presumed attributes of its readership, criticism has remained in the "images" mode.
In condemning such irresponsible behavior, they tried to promote a greater ethic of professionalism among the faculty.
By signing up to independence and thus, by implication, condemning ' dependency ', governments deceive and create a smokescreen.
The writer was not condemning the order per se, only asking to be excused.
The sin is always someone else's for us to condemn and, in condemning, absolve ourselves of guilt.
This being so, it might seem that the correct response to hate speech is more speech-presumably egalitarian speech condemning hate speech-not the restriction of speech.
Moreover, both writers adopt a common complaint of the colonizer by condemning the colonized for their constitutional indolence.
Societal reaction, when his conversion was made public many years later, was severe, with most of his family and friends questioning or condemning his decision.
Seventeen disputes, he noted, were brought by ' parties soliciting from the court an arbitrary sentence as well as a condemning one '.!
After condemning both group studies and individual studies in principle he proceeds to make studies of both kinds impartially.
He wasted no time condemning nationalist chauvinism in the standard manner of liberal cosmopolitans.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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