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These are two similar English
words that I use to get mixed up.
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To treat something as
acceptable, forgivable, harmless.
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That's condone.
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Condemn: to call it wrong, evil.
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To condone something is to
say, no big deal, that's okay.
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To condemn it is to say, that's awful, terrible.
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I condoned a few minor mistakes in his grammar
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because the story he wrote was so interesting.
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However, I condemn cheating of any kind.
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