a. [ad. L. condemnābil-is, f. condemnā-re: see -BLE. Cf. F. condamnable (16th c. in Littré).] Worthy of condemnation or censure, culpable, blameable.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 29. If in neyther of these Anatomies hee be condemnable.
1591. R. Turnbull, Expos. St. James, 155 b. To launch and lauish out wordes lewdly, is condemnable folly.
1675. Penn, Eng. Pres. Interest Discov., 43. They are thus far condemnable upon the Foot of Prudence.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Geo. II. (1847), II. xi. 370. It is less condemnable, than a melancholy vainglory, when some men are ostentatious at their death.
1861. Mill, Utilit., ii. 37. Hardly any kind of action can safely be laid down as either always obligatory or always condemnable.
Hence Condemnably adv.
