damning
[ dam-ing, dam-ning ]
adjective
causing incrimination: damning evidence.
Origin of damning
1Other words from damning
- damn·ing·ly, adverb
- damn·ing·ness, noun
- self-damning, adjective
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How to use damning in a sentence
It is interesting to compare this damningly faint praise from Ruskin with the words of another critic.
It strikes the floor, clinking on the stone loudly, damningly.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanEach candidate, while praising his opponent, wound up with but—and after that conjunction spoke most damningly of his policy.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn | Miles FranklinHe must either like Selina's being away or judge it damningly, and in either case why didn't he speak?
A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly | Henry JamesI was almost happy; the cloven hoof had peeped so damningly out.
Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
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