condemnation

condemnation
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Censure
Nouns — condemnation, conviction, proscription, damnation, doom; death warrant, death sentence or penalty, capital punishment; attainder, attainture, attaintment; denunciation, commination; DiSAPPROBATion, disapproval, censure. See accusation, judgment, imprecation.
Verbs — condemn, convict, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence to death; sentence, pass sentence on, send up; attaint, proscribe, sequestrate; disapprove, censure, denounce, blame.
Adjectives — condemnatory, damnatory; denunciatory; censorious; condemned, damned, convicted; self-convicted.
Quotations — He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her (Bible), Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less (John Major).
Antonyms, see acquittal.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. denunciation, censure, disapprobation, reproach; see blame 1 , conviction 2 , objection 2 , rebuke .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
criticism, censure, disapproval, remonstration, deprecation, rebuke, reproach, denunciation, judgment, sentencing, damning, punishment.
ANT.: praise, approval, absolution
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A comment expressing fault: blame, censure, criticism, denunciation, reprehension, reprobation. Informal: pan. Slang: knock. See PRAISE.

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