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Such behavior is permitted, but we certainly don't condone it.condone = approve of
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We cannot condone such behavior.
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I don't condone what you did, and I'm not saying it's okay, but I probably would've done it too. (source)
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So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. (source)condone = approve
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I still very much believe in God—just not a god who condones human tithing. (source)condones = approves of
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How can she be a woman, not to mention a mother, and condone this sort of thing? (source)condone = accept without criticism; or approve of
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Did their silence condone the lynching? (source)condone = allow (bad behavior) without taking a stand against it
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When the doctor himself finally came in, every one of these people gave him a look like the whole thing had been planned by him, or at least condoned and authorized. (source)condoned = approved of; or accepted
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In Aimee's opinion it would have been condoning sin to let Sandi and her illegitimate son stay there for free. (source)condoning = accepting without taking a stand against it
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Oddly; Marina condones Oswald's violence.† (source)condones = accepts without criticism; or approves of
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His mother laughed condoningly.† (source)
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But with a man of George Dorset's temper there could be no thought of condonation—the possessor of his wife's letters could overthrow with a touch the whole structure of her existence.† (source)condonation = acceptance without criticism; or approval ofstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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How could a school condone an organization like The Vigils? (source)condone = accept without taking a stand against
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punishment coming, PEDE CLAUDO, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault. (source)condoned = accepted without criticism
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Doesn't it mean I'm condoning it?† (source)condoning = accepting without criticism; or approving of
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It accepts everything royally; it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus.† (source)condones = accepts without criticism; or approves of
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