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What does condone mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word condone? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
  2. (transitive) To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
  3. (transitive, law) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
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I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
Opponents of the death penalty in no way condone McVeigh's crime of mass destruction.
I certainly do not condone illegality, but I strongly reject the idea of Mr Citizen becoming a dobber!
We're never asked to identify with Walter, to fully understand his impulses, or condone his past behaviour.
We cannot condone terrorism, but the way to end it is not through a vicious spiral of violence.

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