condemnable

English

Etymology

condemn +‎ -able

Adjective

condemnable (comparative more condemnable, superlative most condemnable)

Deserving of condemnation
- 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism‎:
  It is not the fault of any creed, but of the complicated nature of human affairs, […] that hardly any kind of action can safely be laid down as either always obligatory or always condemnable.
- 2009, January 24, “Charles Mcgrath”, in Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust‎:
  He’s got the one issue that’s utterly condemnable, but he was really quite open.

Translations

deserving of condemnation

Bulgarian: осъдителен (bg) m (osǎdítelen)
Finnish: tuomittava (fi)

Italian: condannabile (it), denunciabile, (literary) dannabile
Manx: so-gheyrey, yn-gheyrey

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