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damnatory
adjective
formaluk /ˈdæm.nə.tər.i/ us /ˈdæm.nə.tɔːr.i/
including a lot of criticism or showing clearly that someone is wrong, guilty, or has behaved very badly:
A witness statement of a damnatory nature was read out in court.
a damnatory clause
I have never read a more bitterly damnatory passage than the last few lines of that chapter.
I had cut my hand in the fight, and I needed to find a way of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I was in front of the judge.
Voices, sometimes damnatory and sometimes favourable, would come to him whenever he closed his eyes at night.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Critical & uncomplimentary
acidulous
aloof
astringency
astringently
barbed
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captious
censorious
derogatory
hypercritical
scarifying
scarifyingly
scathing
scathingly
scorchingly
self-critical
shade
sniffy
uncomplimentary
venomous
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