damning

[ dam-ing, dam-ning ]

/ ˈdæm ɪŋ, ˈdæm nɪŋ /

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adjective

causing incrimination: damning evidence.

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Origin of damning

First recorded in 1590–1600; damn + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM damning

damn·ing·ly, adverbdamn·ing·ness, nounself-damning, adjective

Words nearby damning

damnatory, damned, damnedest, damned if I do, damned if I don't, damnify, damning, damn straight, Damn the torpedoes, damn well, damn with faint praise, damnyankee

How to use damning in a sentence

Magnite’s stock plunged as much as 13% the day after a short-seller released a damning report on the company’s strategy — proof that investors are buying into these narratives, good or bad.
‘Stories don’t equal fluff’: Why narrative spins, not fundamentals, are driving the ad tech stock market|Seb Joseph|March 3, 2021|Digiday
The horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners.
Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?|Jonathan Shieber|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch
Devotees say they can’t get enough, but even they admit that crickets may have a hard getting past that most damning of descriptions—a meat alternative.
They're Healthy. They're Sustainable. So Why Don't Humans Eat More Bugs?|Aryn Baker|February 26, 2021|Time
If internal documents suggesting collusion between Google and Facebook do exist, then they paint a damning picture of Google and lend more credibility to the claims outlined in the complaint.
Google accused of colluding with Facebook and abusing monopoly power in new lawsuit|George Nguyen|December 17, 2020|Search Engine Land

Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year.
AI is wrestling with a replication crisis|Emily Luong|November 12, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Even though a grand jury chose not to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner, the video is damning of police.
‘I Can’t Breathe!’ ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ A Moral Indictment of Cop Culture|Michael Daly|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is already a damning common denominator between the two shootings: the Cleveland police department itself.
The Cleveland Cops Who Fired 137 Shots and Cried Victim|Michael Daly|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But, as is often the case, what may be equally as damning as the crime will be the cover-up.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero|Clive Irving|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The testimony is damning: the world has not learned its lesson.
The Man Who Invented the Word ‘Genocide’|Nina Strochlic|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Again, conviction on this charge is unlikely unless clear damning facts emerge.
Prosecuting Officer Wilson Won't Bring Justice to Ferguson|Candace McCoy|August 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The king will be in Asturia almost before that damning paragraph reaches there.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
Since this damning criticism was uttered, matters had not improved, on the contrary, had gone from bad to worse.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks
He looked again at the damning evidence and his defiance broke.
Space Prison|Tom Godwin
The poets of even the seventeenth century never tire of damning them in good, set terms.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce
If nothing more is said than "It is too bad it happened," it has its faintly damning effect on us.
Dominie Dean|Ellis Parker Butler