to accept behaviour that is morally wrong or to treat it as if it were not serious:
[VN] Terrorism can never be condoned. * The college cannot condone any behaviour that involves illicit drugs. [also V-ing, VN-ing]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for condone is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is condone a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, condone is tagged as verb.
Does condone appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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