DAMNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damning mean? 

• DAMNING (adjective)
  The adjective DAMNING has 1 sense:

1. threatening with damnation

  Familiarity information: DAMNING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Threatening with damnation

Synonyms:

damnatory; damning

Similar:

inculpative; inculpatory (causing blame to be imputed to)

 Context examples 

“Then how do you account for that?” cried Hopkins, as he held up the damning notebook, with the initials of our prisoner on the first leaf and the blood-stain on the cover.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I could hardly imagine a more damning case,” I remarked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She could not help but measure the professors, neat, scholarly, in fitting clothes, speaking in well-modulated voices, breathing of culture and refinement, with this almost indescribable young fellow whom somehow she loved, whose clothes never would fit him, whose heavy muscles told of damning toil, who grew excited when he talked, substituting abuse for calm statement and passionate utterance for cool self-possession.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Brooding over the case in that den of his, it suddenly struck him what absolutely damning evidence he could make against McFarlane by using that thumb-mark.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at least a most suspicious remark.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)