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condemn
1. v. To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
The president condemned the terrorists.
2. v. To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
3. v. To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
4. v. To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
5. v. To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
6. v. To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
7. v. To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
8. v. (transitive, legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

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Look into your own heart and you can not condemn me.  So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.  These are really interesting times, because while the media will condemn us as racists and bigots, a lot of your actual voting public support us.  Some six million adult illiterates have a right to condemn what went before.  The government must realise that its failure to swiftly condemn an attack on the very essence of Islam effectively condones it.

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