- past participle of countenance.
- past tense form of countenance.
countenanced
Example Sentences
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It understood its sector — venture capitalists and technology start-ups — and made loans that national banks would never have countenanced.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
Because it is outrageous that such a wealthy city has countenanced inhuman living conditions like this for years.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Ms. Notz, though, said the founders never countenanced the idea of revocation so those shouldn’t count.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
DuBois and Booker T. Washington on down, spoke regularly and with great pride about what blacks had accomplished despite slavery, Reconstruction and Supreme Court rulings that countenanced segregation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2017
This was extravagant and not to be countenanced.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
