__ with faint praise

Usage examples of damns.

If Jesus damns me for saving the life and freedom of my people at the cost of one life, then I'll damn him back.

But the man who is convinced of his own worthlessness will be drawn to a woman he despises—because she will reflect his own secret self, she will release him from that objective reality in which he is a fraud, she will give him a momentary illusion of his own value and a momentary escape from the moral code that damns him.