condemnable

adjective

Definition of condemnablenext
as in abhorrent

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Recent Examples of condemnable By near any measure, the quarters were condemnable. — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for condemnable
  1. abhorrent
  2. abominable
  3. detestable
  4. hateful
  5. loathsome
  6. odious
  7. deplorable
  8. despicable
Adjective
  • The theft of taxpayer dollars intended to help the American people is abhorrent and must be stopped.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The allegations in this indictment are abhorrent and represent a profound betrayal of that trust.
    — Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of abhorrent
Adjective
  • No sooner had the Chiefs’ abominable 2025 season (6-11) come to an end, team president Mark Donovan said last month, than the organization pivoted to 2026.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That led to cycles of reform and renovation, as well as backlash, chiefly from cultural conservatives, who saw the adoption of western European habits and attitudes as abominable and even heretical.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of abominable
Adjective
  • Soon after he was elected, the Half Moon Bay shooting occurred in January 2023, killing eight farmworkers and exposing detestable housing conditions for the county’s immigrant farmworkers.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
Definition of detestable
Adjective
  • Violent mobs carrying Palestinian flags clashed with police, looted hundreds of stores, and flooded social media with over 1,300 hateful anti-Semitic posts.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Illinois High School Association is responding as an investigation continues into hateful comments against Evanston Township High School students who were part of marching band during a football game at the new Ryan Field last week.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of hateful
Adjective
  • Given French’s loathsome history, Abbott and others in the party establishment worked hard to keep him from winning the Republican nomination, Rice noted.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Kraus’ paean to peace is written in the most luxurious and loathsome language imaginable — in one very long and fractured sentence.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of loathsome
Adjective
  • With this logic, the deepfake meme operates as a soft launch to more odious uses of the technology.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • His presence means that Paxton is only the second most odious figure seeking statewide office in Texas in November.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of odious
Adjective
  • Trump needs to rescind this deplorable action and move swiftly to implement the Lindsey Graham Act.
    — Joel R. Levin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Our present condition is deplorable on account of a terrific burden of unemployment caused by overproduction.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of deplorable
Adjective
  • The despicable Lindsay Clancy lawyer, using a repulsive alternative defense, shows the egregious chutzpah some shysters resort to to get a client off.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In a humiliating ritual, the assistant manager was marched out the door, hauled downtown for an interrogation, and accused of a despicable crime.
    — Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of despicable

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