Polish English Dictionary

potępiać in English:

1. condemn

Today, most people in the world condemn slavery.

She knew that society would condemn her for leaving her children.

We should condemn terrorism

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The doctors were wrong to condemn the couple.

we We condemn any acts of terror. The killings were strongly condemned by the church

He was rwluctant to condemn her.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has condemned the move to impeach her as a "coup" and a "farce", denying she has committed any crimes.

The government issued a statement condemning the killings.

I don't see why divorce should be condemned.

parents condemn their children to a desperate, joyless life

1. condemn sb/sth (for/as sth) to say strongly that you think sb/sth is very bad or wrong 2. condemn sb (to sth/to do sth) to say what sb's punishment will be

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

English word "potępiać"(condemn) occurs in sets:

radio and internet words the 18th of July
Divine 27 zw. czw. 1 Tm 5,3-25
collective nouns, page 3, only english
A Saudi woman who dared to drive
From book ‚the power of now’

2. deprecate

I deprecate such a course of action.

English word "potępiać"(deprecate) occurs in sets:

Fiszki z książki - "Poems 1918-21" (Ezra Pound)
Fiszki z książki - "The Babe, B.A." (E. F. Benson)
Fiszki z książki - "H. G. Wells" (J. D. Beresford)
Fiszki z książki - "Sir Isaac Brock" (Hugh S. Eayrs)
Fiszki z książki - "Sixpenny Pieces" (A. Neil Lyons)

3. denounce

He was denounced as a traitor.

More recently, he has denounced the hardline abortion legislation before parliament which would completely ban the procedure, even in cases of rape, incest or fetal deformation

We must denounce injustice and oppression

“does the government intend to take to fight these phenomena which you yourself denounce?”

The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides

The alterglobalists denounce growing inequalities.