Stranger still, her harsher qualities appeared where her manner of life was lawful, and her finer ones where it was condemnable.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
For the priest, however, all these were vague, disturbing things, condemnable features of disorderly life, and he had invariably pretended to be ignorant of them.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
There is nothing surprising, perhaps nothing deeply condemnable, in the burning anger for which this acquiescence is often changed in the more impatient natures.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley