verb
condone
CEFR C2
to accept and allow behavior considered wrong to continue
In a sentence
Six example sentences with condone, each labelled with its topic.
The mayor would not condone the shortcut her deputy took, and she returned the contract to open bidding.
Politics
The gym cannot condone members skipping the warm-up, so trainers now lock the weight room until stretching finishes.
Fitness
Auditors will not condone rounding errors that always favor the seller, even when each single amount looks trivial.
Business
A judge cannot condone a late filing simply because the lawyer was busy, so the appeal was dismissed.
Law
The tournament organizers refuse to condone macro scripts, and any player caught using one loses the season's points.
Gaming
Journals do not condone dropping inconvenient data points, and the retraction notice explained exactly which values had vanished.
Science
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency WordsRecognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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