condone

CEFRC1

/kənˈdoʊn/

verb

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01
verb
To accept bad behavior and allow it to continue.
02
verb
Extra detail
To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).

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‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Rule-utilitarianism is unlikely to condone torturing a child, but it does imply that the torturing of a child is less evil if the torturer shares his pleasure with other sadists-perhaps by inviting an audience, or broadcasting it on the Internet.
2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 29

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Learned borrowing from Latin condōnāre (“to forgive”).