The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CONDEMN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CONDEMN
- Criticise prisoner, leader of malcontents, in study
- . Censure maiden entering criminal hangout
- Two studies involving minute sentence
- Censure Conservative Party over end of compassion
- Denounce criminal men behind trick with diamonds
- Denounce Conservative-Democratic coalition at last
- Prisoner on mend after modifying sentence
- Criticise study after study receiving money
- Demolish criminal’s hideout stuffed with money
- Ad hoc term for recent coalition government? Name to censure
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What does CONDEMN mean?
CONDEMN verb- To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
- To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
- To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
- To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
- To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
- To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.