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Definition of damnable in English: damnableadjective ˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l 1Very bad or unpleasant. 该死的,讨厌的 leave this damnable place behind 离开这个该死的地方。 Example sentencesExamples - How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny?
- However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade.
- Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas.
- This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
- There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may.
- Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in?
- I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups.
- That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war.
- Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders.
- I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place.
- In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking.
- Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive.
- Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder.
- There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration.
- The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable.
- This was a Friday night of the damnable variety.
- You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions!
- Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
- From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record.
- Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible annoying, irritating, infuriating, maddening, exasperating hateful, detestable, loathsome, foul, abominable, odious, obnoxious informal beastly, pestilential archaic scurvy 2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation. 应受天谴的 suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages 中世纪时自杀被认为是该受到天谴的。 Example sentencesExamples - Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
- Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
- Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room?
Synonyms accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, Mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous rare anathematized
OriginMiddle English (in sense 2): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare 'inflict loss on' (see damn). Definition of damnable in US English: damnableadjectiveˈdamnəb(ə)lˈdæmnəb(ə)l 1Extremely bad or unpleasant. 该死的,讨厌的 leave this damnable place behind 离开这个该死的地方。 Example sentencesExamples - Such a damnable day only heightens the pleasure of what I am about to receive.
- In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking.
- That's a damnable insult to the man who ended the cold war.
- However, as the teams traipsed off at 4 o'clock, those damnable weather gods decided to rain on Partick's parade.
- Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
- Trust those damnable Euro bureaucrats to ruin Christmas.
- From that day forth I became acutely aware that people say the most damnable stuff off-the-record.
- I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups.
- Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder.
- This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
- Good God… who on earth thought up duvets and those damnable covers they reside in?
- Yet people short on money often neglect the advice of the professional scolds and instead turn to the damnable moneylenders.
- The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable.
- I fear I cannot stand more than two nights per week in this damnable place.
- There is nothing more to say about this damnable road; it is best to hasten along it if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may.
- Such shops used to exist, but they have all been put out of business by those damnable supermarkets.
- You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions!
- This was a Friday night of the damnable variety.
- There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration.
- How can something so utterly damnable and sick also be so funny?
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible 2Subject to or worthy of divine condemnation. 应受天谴的 suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages 中世纪时自杀被认为是该受到天谴的。 Example sentencesExamples - Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
- Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
- Is diving on a grenade (hence, suicide) damnable if it saves the others in the room?
Synonyms accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous
OriginMiddle English (in damnable (sense 2)): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’ (see damn). |