verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm not condoning his behaviour, but I can understand why he wanted revenge on his daughter's attacker.
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Some parents feel that making birth control available to teenagers somehow condones sexual activity.
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The state appears to condone police brutality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to numerous opinion polls, they solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
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Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
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Don't get me wrong, I don't condone what he did in the Widnes-Castleford game.
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She most certainly at no time condoned what had happened to her daughter.
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The state has managed both to condone and to condemn prostitution.
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To appear to condone the Confederacy is to appear to condone slavery.
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While Miss Lidgett showed some appreciation of the woman's circumstances, she was unable to condone her course of action.