condemnable

adjective

Definition of condemnablenext
as in abhorrent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for condemnable
  1. abhorrent
  2. abominable
  3. detestable
  4. hateful
  5. loathsome
  6. odious
  7. deplorable
  8. despicable
Adjective
  • The scene was particularly challenging for Hoult, who had to convey with passionate conviction an ideology that is personally abhorrent to him.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This is the latest abhorrent act in the regime’s long history of transnational repression and accelerating rate of executions.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of abhorrent
Adjective
  • But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
  • His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
Definition of abominable
Adjective
  • What’s more, a loss at Hell in a Cell could also force McIntyre to become an even more detestable heel in the weeks and months ahead.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • As if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of detestable
Adjective
  • The Center for Countering Digital Hate recently said that X failed to remove nearly 86% of 300 hateful posts a week after the organization reported them.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Finally, there’s the late-to-the-party Johnny (Christopher Sears), a free-spirited recovering heroin addict who brings along his fellow 12-stepper Loren (Barbie Ferreira), the outsider and truth-teller whose appalled at the hateful religious vitriol spewed by Diana.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of hateful
Adjective
  • More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
Definition of loathsome
Adjective
  • As is consistent across American life, the only way to hold a corporation like Spotify accountable for its inequitable distribution model and odious use of A.I. is to deny it access to your wallet and personal data.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
  • By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.
    Elizabeth M. Reese / Made by History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of odious
Adjective
  • The lawmaker has charted the deplorable conditions some of the Jan. 6 defendants have lived in at the Washington, D.C. jail.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
  • But for months, the FDA failed to act on a whistleblower complaint alerting regulators to deplorable conditions at an infant-formula factory that eventually caused nationwide formula shortages and two infant deaths.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of deplorable
Adjective
  • Warren was neither asked nor volunteered proof to back up her despicable charge.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The mighty Roosevelt Johnson pulls a dual role as the exasperated ghost of Pap and the despicable Uncle Rev.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of despicable
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