condemns
Declares publicly guilty
Condemns is the third-person singular form of condemn, which means to express strong disapproval or to declare something wrong or evil.
The report condemns the government's handling of the crisis.
Officials may condemn a building when they declare it unfit for use.
In legal contexts, to condemn someone is to sentence them to punishment, especially death.
The word often carries a sense of finality or harsh judgment from which there is no appeal.
Publicly declare wrongdoing
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- rebukeExpress sharp disapproval
- decryOpenly criticize harshly
- castigateReprimand severely
reprimand · admonish · reproach · berate · chastise · lambaste · upbraid · excoriate
Complete thought, grammatically
- convictJailed offender after trial
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
death penalty · execution · punishment · penal · prison · life sentence · capital punishment · felony
Unavoidable grim fate
- destineFix future outcome
- sealAuthentication stamp or mark
- consignEntrust to another's keeping
- relegateAssign to inferior position
sentence · curse · damn · forsake · abandon · hopeless · inescapable · inevitable
Violation of divine law
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- evilProfound moral wickedness
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- immoralityQuality of being wicked
vice · corruption · wrongdoing · transgression · iniquity · reprehensible · shameful · scandalous
Likely to cause harm
- uninhabitableUnfit for residence
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- unfitNot suited for purpose
- hazardousLikely to cause injury
dilapidated · blight · raze · tear down · bulldoze · abandoned · derelict · inspection
denounce
Publicly declare wrongdoing
castigate · reprimand · admonish · reproach · berate · chastise · lambaste · upbraid · excoriate · vilify
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
- convictJailed offender after trial
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
incarceration · death penalty · execution · punishment · penal · prison · life sentence · capital punishment · felony · judgment
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
relegate · sentence · curse · damn · forsake · abandon · hopeless · inescapable · inevitable · trapped
sin
Violation of divine law
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- evilProfound moral wickedness
- depravityProfound moral corruption
immorality · vice · corruption · wrongdoing · transgression · iniquity · reprehensible · shameful · scandalous · nefarious
unsafe
Likely to cause harm
- uninhabitableUnfit for residence
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- unfitNot suited for purpose
hazardous · dilapidated · blight · raze · tear down · bulldoze · abandoned · derelict · inspection · code violation
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, denounces, censures, denigrates
- disapprovaldisapproval, scowl, disapprove, disapproves, frown
- punishespunishes, penalizes, disciplines, chastises, castigates
condemnsacquits
Declares legally innocent
absolves · exonerates · clears · pardons · vindicates
- public condemnation
- condemned buildingStructure declared unsafe for use
- condemned prisonerPerson sentenced to die
- condemned cellHousing for execution-bound inmates
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