Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deserving condemnation; odious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be condemned; worthy of condemnation; productive of harm, loss, or injury.
- Worthy of damnation.
- Entailing damnation; damning.
- Odious; detestable; abominable; outrageous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
- adjective Odious; pernicious; detestable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
damned - adjective Deserving of
damnation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving a curse
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Examples
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And, in conclusion, I wish to compliment all three of you on the courage and resource you displayed in tracking down these damnable scoundrels -- _damnable_ scoundrels. "
Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Compare 2Pe 2: 1, "There shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."
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"privily shall bring in damnable heresies." before ... ordained -- Greek, "forewritten," namely, in Peter's prophecy
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He had stoutly repudiated her offer, which he had called a damnable compact.
Ayala's Angel 2004
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He had stoutly repudiated her offer, which he had called a damnable compact.
Ayala's Angel 1993
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It may have been a question of missionary zeal and desire to do what he could to improve the standards in what has been described as a damnable profession.
India and Pakistan 1965
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He had stoutly repudiated her offer, which he had called a damnable compact.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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He had stoutly repudiated her offer, which he had called a damnable compact.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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Half the people and more than half the army of the North are as little infected with what the Southerns call the damnable heresy of
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To call the damnable and accursed system of political intrigue practised for past centuries by the Roman
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841
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