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How to use condign in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word condign? Here are some examples.

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Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.
There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.
I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.
Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign.
He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
As he points out, if the allegation were true, this leak would constitute a serious breach of national security and would merit condign punishment under a 1982 law.
A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.
Yet I feel that the shared love of detail and nuance that each brought to his canvas makes the comparison a condign one.
His madness, therefore, is like the state celebrated by RD Laing: insanity not as a state worthy of condign treatment but as a rebellion, the only possible act of sanity in a mad, mad world.
Examples from Classical Literature
Indemnity, swift and condign, does what mortal hand can do to heal the hurt.
Enraged at this, Noakes threatened the malcontents with condign punishment.
I'll after 'em, and see the Traitor brought to condign Punishment.
She turned upon her guest the cold eyes of a condign destiny.
Our guerdon is shame in this world and condign punishment in the next.
The dwarf muttering a terrible oath looked round as if for some weapon with which to inflict condign punishment upon his disobedient wife.
Instantly he detected the culprit, and condign punishment followed.
Summary and condign was the punishment that fell on the unlucky Jenny.
All 10,000-winner jockeys on the globe would be queueing up to flout the rules at Ascot, safe in the knowledge that the Baze Precedent would save them from condign punishment.
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