condemnation
/ˌkɒndəmˈneɪʃn
/noun [mass noun]
1The expression of very strong disapproval; censure: there was strong international condemnation of the attack...
- We ask you to add your voice to the growing chorus of condemnation of Australia's refugee program.
- Most telling about the agenda of Human Rights Watch is the joint NGO statement of condemnation regarding the Beslan terrorist massacre.
- There is much about rehearsals, interpretations, recommendations or condemnations of performers.
Synonyms
censure, criticism, castigation, stricture, denunciation, damnation, vilification, opprobrium;
reproof, disapproval, disapprobation
informal flak, a bad press
rare reprobation, arraignment, excoriation, objurgation
2The action of condemning someone to a punishment; sentencing.All the time he was under condemnation at Newgate he seemed only to meditate on making his escape....
- As a result, they repeatedly solicited papal bulls condemning Jansenist works, and persecuted priests who refused formally to accept the condemnations.
- Condemnation of the serial killer has been matched by criticism of the ineffective work of the local police and school headmasters.
- the Parquet
- the Paschal Lamb
- the Passion
- the path of least resistance
- the patter of tiny feet
- the pen is mightier than the sword
- the Pennines
- the penny dropped
- the People
- the pit of one's (or the) stomach
- the plot thickens
- the Plough
- the Poconos
- the point of no return
- the poor man's ——
- the Pope
- the pot calling the kettle black
- the Potteries
- the powers that be
- the Premiership
- the Primary
- the Principality
- moccasin game
- moccasin rubber
- moccasin telegraph