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condign

[kuhn-dahyn] / kənˈdaɪn /














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That is changing, if the NSO’s growth in condign prestige under the direction of Music Director Gianandrea Noseda is a fair indication.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

But we suppose having to serve as governor of Illinois is condign punishment for the offense… - Speaking of jobs no sane person would want, who’d like to be the next Prime Minister of Britain?

From Fox News Nov. 15, 2018

So welcome, then, El Hadji Diouf, to Scotland, cradle of the enlightenment and beacon of condign behaviour at all times in a dark world.

From The Guardian Feb. 6, 2011

CSI stalwart Sarah Butler does what she can with the much-wronged hellcat, but her character's condign rage rouses ne'er a flicker of empathy.

From The Guardian Jan. 24, 2011

Fortunately, though protracted, detection had overtaken the offenders, he declared—the principal offenders—as sooner or later it invariably and surely did, let them be certain of that, and, with detection, chastisement immediate and condign.

From Haviland's Chum by Mitford, Bertram




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