condemn
Declare officially guilty
Condemn means to express strong disapproval or to declare something wrong or evil: The senator condemned the attack.
Courts condemn prisoners to punishment—especially death.
Buildings are condemned when declared unsafe for use.
To condemn someone to a fate is to doom them to it: His injury condemned him to a life of chronic pain.
The word carries weight and finality.
Claim someone did wrong
- denouncePublicly declare wrongdoing
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- criticizeJudge unfavorably, vocally
- reproachExpression of disappointment
reprimand · castigate · indict · incriminate · fault · guilt · culpability · implicate
Complete thought, grammatically
- fatePredetermined course of events
- destineFix future outcome
- consignEntrust to another's keeping
- foreordainFix fate in advance
inevitable · sealed · hopeless · terminal · damned · cursed · perdition · judgment
Condemn as wrong
- decryOpenly criticize harshly
- disapproveJudge as wrong
- disdainScornful disregard
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
reprove · disparage · vilify · execrate · revile · denigrate · abhor · detest
Deliberately keep away
- spurnRefuse with contempt
- repudiateReject as having no authority
- disownReject connection to
- renounceFormally give up
exclude · ostracize · boycott · blackball · pariah · outcast · exile · banish
Spoken false defamation
- libelPrinted defamation
- smearSpread or defame
- malignAttack someone's reputation
- besmirchTo soil someone's reputation
calumny · aspersion · traduce · impugn · defame · mudslinging · scapegoat · vilification
Painful awareness of failure
- humiliateCause painful shame
- stigmatizeMark with dishonor
- discreditHarm another's reputation
- dishonorLoss of respect
disgrace · infamy · scandal · ignominy · opprobrium · disrepute · degradation · tarnish
Not suited for purpose
- uninhabitableUnfit for residence
- unsafeLikely to cause harm
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
- derelictAbandoned or neglectful
blight · demolition · raze · bulldoze · teardown · redevelopment · hazardous
accuse
Claim someone did wrong
- denouncePublicly declare wrongdoing
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- criticizeJudge unfavorably, vocally
reproach · reprimand · castigate · indict · incriminate · fault · guilt · culpability · implicate · accountable
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
foreordain · inevitable · sealed · hopeless · terminal · damned · cursed · perdition · judgment · inescapable
deplore
Condemn as wrong
- decryOpenly criticize harshly
- disapproveJudge as wrong
- disdainScornful disregard
scorn · reprove · disparage · vilify · execrate · revile · denigrate · abhor · detest · reprehend
shun
Deliberately keep away
renounce · exclude · ostracize · boycott · blackball · pariah · outcast · exile · banish · forsake
slander
Spoken false defamation
besmirch · calumny · aspersion · traduce · impugn · defame · mudslinging · scapegoat · vilification
shame
Painful awareness of failure
- humiliateCause painful shame
- stigmatizeMark with dishonor
- discreditHarm another's reputation
dishonor · disgrace · infamy · scandal · ignominy · opprobrium · disrepute · degradation · tarnish · sully
unfit
Not suited for purpose
- uninhabitableUnfit for residence
- unsafeLikely to cause harm
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
derelict · blight · demolition · raze · bulldoze · teardown · redevelopment · hazardous
- disapprovaldisapproval, scowl, disapprove, disapproves, frown
- judgmentsjudgment call, judge, moral judgment, criticize, value judgment
- diplomatic languagewith all due respect, no comment, at this time, in good faith, mutual understanding
- accusationsaccusation, accuse, accuser, allegation, allege
- moral judgmentsgood, evil, wicked, virtuous, moral
- heresyheretic, heretical, heretics, apostasy, apostate
- public condemnation
- condemned buildingStructure declared unsafe for use
- condemned prisonerPerson sentenced to die
- condemned cellHousing for execution-bound inmates
condemned, self-condemnation, condemning, condemnation, condemns, condemnatory, condemnable, condemners, condemnations