Crossword clues for damning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (d[a^]md or d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
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To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
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To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
--Pope.Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damning \Damn"ing\, a. That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Wiktionary
condemning n. 1 A condemnation. 2 An act of swearing with the word "damn". v
(present participle of damn English)
WordNet
adj. threatening with damnation [syn: damnatory]
Usage examples of "damning".
Jou are a fake, a fraud and, most damning of all, jou are really Subcomandante Verapaz.
They had been foremost in damning Dundas with their sly, pejorative words, their judgment of his character, wise after the event.
Actually, Seg had no idea whether his boss was guilty or not, but the appearance was so damning that the man had gone along with his plan.
Coop, who had seen to the brakes of each scooter but now peeled off from behind Lovett, who rode smartly into the ivy and fell, damning his demon velocipede and Coop Gunther with equal enthusiasm.
In damning clarity, he discerned how his weaknesses made him the flesh-and-blood puppet to mow down any fool who balked his intent to kill Lysaer.
Dragging in a deep, cleansing breath, Bree concentrated on the disastrous outcome if he won, if he discovered the damning truth about her, about Sydney.
In their passion for exclusivism and damning others, they gave his establishment so many names that Barion simply affixed a nonsectarian title that stuck.
Her gaze focused on the lodestone, the magnetite, the stone she had used against Markwart, the damning piece of evidence that would surely seal her doom should she ever go to trial.
But the mere fact that the Misses Tripp have adopted with enthusiasm Christian Science, vegetarianism, theosophy and spiritualism does not really constitute a damning indictment of those subjects!
Dainig came close to damning the boy for letting the doctors hack him to pieces over a bowl of water with a scaley carp inside it.
Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess.
Father Looney along the communion rail, holding the paten beneath the chins of the old women while the damning wafer melted against the roof of my mouth, and the heads of the spinster sisters shook in helpless pity for a soul forever lost.
To be called a robust speaker by a Pisces was a damning with faint praise.
And finallymost damning of allyou overlooked a most elementary precaution.
He cleverly bluffs his way through, counting on everyone to conclude, as I myself did, that only an innocent man would leave such damning evidence at the scene.