1
: bringing damnation
a damning sin
2
: causing or leading to condemnation or ruin
presented some damning testimony
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Examples of damning in a Sentence
a damning flaw in the program cost the company millions of dollars
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Had Timberlake’s acting career survived, this wouldn’t be such a damning association.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
That President Biden aspires to celebrate it — let alone to build on it — is damning in the extreme.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 June 2024
The timelessness of her circumstance is the only thing scarier or more damning than the specifics of her ultimate response to it.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
But if a Hawke guest-actor nomination is the only one Reservation Dogs gets, the optics of Emmy voters funneling all their approval to the show’s one famous white male would be pretty damning.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 June 2024
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
That President Biden aspires to celebrate it — let alone to build on it — is damning in the extreme.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 June 2024
The timelessness of her circumstance is the only thing scarier or more damning than the specifics of her ultimate response to it.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
But if a Hawke guest-actor nomination is the only one Reservation Dogs gets, the optics of Emmy voters funneling all their approval to the show’s one famous white male would be pretty damning.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 June 2024
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“Damning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damning. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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