damning
causing incrimination: damning evidence.
Origin of damning
1Other words from damning
- damn·ing·ly, adverb
- damn·ing·ness, noun
- self-damning, adjective
Words Nearby damning
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How to use damning in a sentence
Magnite’s stock plunged as much as 13% the day after a short-seller released a damning report on the company’s strategy — proof that investors are buying into these narratives, good or bad.
‘Stories don’t equal fluff’: Why narrative spins, not fundamentals, are driving the ad tech stock market | Seb Joseph | March 3, 2021 | DigidayThe horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners.
Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute? | Jonathan Shieber | February 26, 2021 | TechCrunchDevotees say they can’t get enough, but even they admit that crickets may have a hard getting past that most damning of descriptions—a meat alternative.
They're Healthy. They're Sustainable. So Why Don't Humans Eat More Bugs? | Aryn Baker | February 26, 2021 | TimeIf internal documents suggesting collusion between Google and Facebook do exist, then they paint a damning picture of Google and lend more credibility to the claims outlined in the complaint.
Google accused of colluding with Facebook and abusing monopoly power in new lawsuit | George Nguyen | December 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandLast month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year.
Even though a grand jury chose not to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner, the video is damning of police.
‘I Can’t Breathe!’ ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ A Moral Indictment of Cop Culture | Michael Daly | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is already a damning common denominator between the two shootings: the Cleveland police department itself.
The Cleveland Cops Who Fired 137 Shots and Cried Victim | Michael Daly | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut, as is often the case, what may be equally as damning as the crime will be the cover-up.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe testimony is damning: the world has not learned its lesson.
Again, conviction on this charge is unlikely unless clear damning facts emerge.
Prosecuting Officer Wilson Won't Bring Justice to Ferguson | Candace McCoy | August 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe king will be in Asturia almost before that damning paragraph reaches there.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteSince this damning criticism was uttered, matters had not improved, on the contrary, had gone from bad to worse.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksHe looked again at the damning evidence and his defiance broke.
Space Prison | Tom GodwinThe poets of even the seventeenth century never tire of damning them in good, set terms.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceIf nothing more is said than "It is too bad it happened," it has its faintly damning effect on us.
Dominie Dean | Ellis Parker Butler
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