Condemn vs Vilify - What's the difference?
condemn | vilify |
To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
(legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
To say defamatory things about someone or something.
To belittle through speech; to put down.
Vilify is a synonym of condemn.
In transitive terms the difference between condemn and vilify
is that condemn is to adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption while vilify is to belittle through speech; to put down.condemn
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Verb
(en verb)- The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
- The president condemns the terrorist.
- The president condemns the terrorist attacks.