Condemnatory is an English word with synonyms like condemning or inculpatory. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Condemnatory in a sentence
Condemnatory meaning
Serving to condemn or censure.
Synonyms of Condemnatory
Using Condemnatory
- The main meaning on this page is: Serving to condemn or censure.
- Useful related words include: condemning, inculpatory, inculpative.
Context around Condemnatory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Condemnatory
- In this selection, "condemnatory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, finding, completely, sentence and poems stand out and add context to how "condemnatory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a non condemnatory sentence as and fault finding condemnatory or blaming. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "condemnatory" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with condemnatory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There has not been a “non-condemnatory sentence”, as Bordalás put it. (12 words)
William Hazlitt (1778-1850): Censoriousness is defined as critical, fault-finding, condemnatory or blaming others. (15 words)
For instance, though Ransom negatively criticised "The Waste Land" for its "extreme disconnection", Ransom was not completely condemnatory of Eliot's work and admitted that Eliot was a talented poet. (30 words)
The condemnatory poems are short and anonymous; Jonson’s epigrams of praise, including a famous poem to Camden and lines to Lucy Harington, are longer and are mostly addressed to specific individuals. (32 words)
For instance, though Ransom negatively criticised "The Waste Land" for its "extreme disconnection", Ransom was not completely condemnatory of Eliot's work and admitted that Eliot was a talented poet. (30 words)
William Hazlitt (1778-1850): Censoriousness is defined as critical, fault-finding, condemnatory or blaming others. (15 words)
Example sentences (4)
There has not been a “non-condemnatory sentence”, as Bordalás put it.
William Hazlitt (1778-1850): Censoriousness is defined as critical, fault-finding, condemnatory or blaming others.
For instance, though Ransom negatively criticised "The Waste Land" for its "extreme disconnection", Ransom was not completely condemnatory of Eliot's work and admitted that Eliot was a talented poet.
The condemnatory poems are short and anonymous; Jonson’s epigrams of praise, including a famous poem to Camden and lines to Lucy Harington, are longer and are mostly addressed to specific individuals.