Condemned vs Disgrace - What's the difference?
condemned | disgrace |
Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
Having been sharply scolded.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 19
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, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
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Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
A person sentenced to death.
(condemn)
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
* Shakespeare
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
* Francis Bacon
To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
As nouns the difference between condemned and disgrace
is that condemned is a person sentenced to death while disgrace is disgrace.As an adjective condemned
is having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.As a verb condemned
is (condemn).condemned
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* (having received a curse) damned, doomedAntonyms
* (having received a curse) blessed, savedNoun
(condemned)Verb
(head)disgrace
English
(wikipedia disgrace)Noun
(en noun)- Macduff lives in disgrace .
- the interchange continually of favours and disgraces