condone
kun-DOHNverbMeaning to accept or overlook wrongdoing
Memory hook CON-DONE: “Eh, it’s DONE all the time”. Pip peeks at the answer sheet, and the substitute just shrugs: “Eh, it’s done all the time.” By shrugging it off, he condones the cheating.
The school does not condone copying homework.
In context By laughing along instead of stopping the teasing, the counselor seemed to condone it, and the campers took it as permission to continue.
Similar overlook, excuse, tolerate, allow
Opposite condemn, forbid, denounce
From Latin condonare, “to give up, forgive”: con + donare (to give).