adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
roundly condemn sth/sb (= very strongly and severely )
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Last week’s violence was roundly condemned by foreign governments.
roundly criticize sb/sth (= strongly and severely )
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Their research has been roundly criticized.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
condemn
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Such inequality was roundly condemned by the Old Testament prophets.
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And every year the report's findings are roundly condemned by Tory politicians for being excessively negative.
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Under normal circumstances that would be a thoroughly anti-democratic development, to be roundly condemned .
criticize
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Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.
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The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But at the time, these ideas were roundly rejected by geophysicists.
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But the poet Goethe roundly rejected that idea.
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Insider dealing has been roundly trounced, widely discredited, and often outlawed.
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Its 853 California miles are roundly hated.
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Mr Pastrana's audacity was roundly applauded, but there was less enthusiasm for what he managed to achieve.
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Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.
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Those who have read him know how seldom he declares himself thus roundly and emphatically.