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Example sentences for "condemnatory"

Lexicographically close words:
condamnation; condemn; condemnable; condemnation; condemnations; condemne; condemned; condemnest; condemneth; condemning
  1. These whited sepulchers of society purse discreet yet condemnatory lips when Aaron's name is mentioned, and speak of him as favoring "Benthamism" and "Godwinism.

  2. As Aaron delivers this warning, so dangerous is the impression he throws off, that it first whitens and then locks the condemnatory lips of colleague King.

  3. He drew up to relieve himself of a critical and condemnatory expiration of a certain length.

  4. The king discovered certain condemnatory circumstances regarding the conduct of the queen previous to her marriage with him, and in a few short months Catharine also expiated her ambition and her supposed guilt upon the scaffold.

  5. While Antony thus amused himself with such sports, and much more condemnatory pleasures, news reached him of trouble at Rome.

  6. And where was the subject of their condemnatory opinions all this while?

  7. Somerset's words had a condemnatory form, but perhaps his actual feeling was that if Miss Power had known her own mind, she would have not interested him half so much.

  8. The sermon was briskly condemnatory of unbelief, for ten minutes, then got immensely pungent as to Popery, and ended in a coloured star- shower concerning the excellence of "the good old Church of England.

  9. The "poetry of the thing" may suffer somewhat by this deviation; but the building appears to smell as sweetly under the shorter as the longer name, so that we shall not enter into any Criticism condemnatory of the change.

  10. Their reports were strongly condemnatory of the Company's government, and the Secretary of State for the time being accordingly demanded Hastings' recall.

  11. In parliamentary influence, however, the coalition was quite irresistible, and at the opening of the session in the spring Lord Shelburne found himself in a minority upon resolutions which had been moved condemnatory of the peace.

  12. Motion after motion condemnatory of the action of the King in the House of Lords was carried by great majorities.

  13. And this gentleman is finely shown up for his condemnatory predilections and inability to discern or appreciate beauties.

  14. Holding these opinions in regard to 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,' I still feel myself called upon to disavow the silly, condemnatory criticism of the work which appeared in one of the earlier numbers of "The Broadway Journal.

  15. After him came Knight Bruce, who read a paper of moderate length, but strongly condemnatory of Gorham, and for affirming the judgement of the Court below.

  16. We had quite a tolerable dinner at this ugly inn, where many preceding travellers had written their condemnatory judgments, as well as a few their favorable ones, in pencil on the walls of the dining-room.

  17. He passed a condemnatory sentence on classic busts in general, saying that they were conventional, and not to be depended upon as trite representations of the persons.

  18. We open the second volume of the Codex Diplomaticus and analyze the first hundred instances of royal gifts which do not bear a condemnatory asterisk and which are not gifts of small plots in or about the towns of Canterbury and Rochester.

  19. Before we pass a condemnatory judgment we must recall the case of Worcestershire, its twelve 'hundreds' and 1200 hides.

  20. A touch of the lofty condemnatory made Mr. Palford impressive.

  21. I have always been convinced that under cross-examination I could be induced to innocently give evidence condemnatory to both sides of any case whatever.

  22. Her still-flushed senses protested on behalf of the eternalness of the passion, and she was obliged to think Emma's cold condemnatory intellect came of the no knowledge of it.

  23. A fit of angry cynicism now and then set her composing phrases as baits for the critics to quote, condemnatory of the attractiveness of the work.

  24. Accusing them of treason in the public assembly, he obtained a condemnatory vote under which they were put to death and their properties confiscated.

  25. It is plainly through the ascendency of Thebes, that this condemnatory vote was passed.

  26. The court pronounced a condemnatory decree on Monday, November 17th.

  27. Had my views about Zobeir prevailed, it would not have removed our difficulties, as Forster would certainly have moved, and with the tories and the Irish have carried, a condemnatory address.

  28. It was a long time before he reported, and his report, when made, was a very unjust and condemnatory one, manifestly tinged with the prejudice so widely spread by Wool's slanders.

  29. It was even more directly condemnatory of the Lieutenant-Governor than the rejoinder above referred to had been.

  30. The Upper Canadian Reformers warmly sympathized with their neighbours, and passed resolutions condemnatory of the obnoxious resolutions.

  31. Schmucker wrote: "The General Synod of the Lutheran Church has adopted only the twenty-one doctrinal articles, omitting even the condemnatory clauses of these, and also the entire catalog of Abuses corrected.

  32. In all the articles the condemnatory sections are omitted.

  33. Our present Secretary of State was a member of that cabinet, and counselled that treaty: our present President was a member of the House, and sanctioned it in voting against Mr. Clay's condemnatory resolution.

  34. Pratt) presided over a county meeting at the Shirehall, when resolutions condemnatory of the action of the Pope were adopted, and an address voted to the Queen.

  35. On the 24th a similar meeting was held at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, when resolutions were passed condemnatory of the action of the Conference and expressive of sympathy with the expelled ministers.

  36. In theological usage unbelief and skepticism have a condemnatory force, as implying wilful rejection of manifest truth.

  37. The antonyms apostate, pervert, and renegade are condemnatory names applied to the convert by those whose faith he forsakes.

  38. The other occasion of his speaking was in May 1855, when Lord Ellenborough had moved an Address to the Crown, condemnatory of the manner in which the Crimean War had been and was being conducted.

  39. When this state of matters was reported to England, it was brought before the House of Commons on a motion by Mr. Cobden, condemnatory of 'the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the "Arrow.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "condemnatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; carping; censorious; condemnatory; contemptuous; damnatory; deprecatory; derisive; destructive; disparaging; invective; priggish; reproachful; ridiculing; scoffing; vilifying; vituperative