condign
Example Sentences
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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
I threatened her with condign punishment; but, folding her arms on her bosom, she claimed her right as a Roman maiden to peruse a work approved of by Augustus.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
