Censure
['senʃə] or ['sɛnʃɚ]
Definition
(n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
(n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
(n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
(v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
(v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
(v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
(v. i.) To judge.
Checker: Natalia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Blame, disapprobation, disapproval, condemnation, reproof, reproach, reprobation, reprehension, rebuke, reprimand, animadversion, stricture.
v. a. Blame, reproach, reprove, chide, reprehend, OVERHAUL, reprimand, rate, berate, scold, find fault with, pass censure on, take to task, bring to book, call over the coals, haul over the coals, call to account, come down upon, snap up, BLOW UP.
Edited by Eileen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BLAME]
SYN:Blame, stricture, reproach, reprobate, inculpate, reprove, condemn, reprehend,chide, berate, scold, upbraid, disapproval, remonstrance, rebuke, reprimand,dispiaise
ANT:Praise, eulogy, approbation, encouragement, commendation
Checker: Monroe
Definition
n. an unfavourable judgment: blame: reproof: (obs.) criticism judgment generally.—v.t. to blame: to condemn as wrong.—adj. Cen′surable deserving of censure: blamable.—n. Cen′surableness.—adv. Cen′surably.
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Examples
- I deserve neither such praise nor such censure, cried Elizabeth; I am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Then, you could dare censure for my sake? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The term you use,' said Mr. Brownlow, sternly, 'is a reproach to those long since passed beyond the feeble censure of the world. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Upon Clive Parliament passed a vote of censure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is the system of government, the situation in which they are placed, that I mean to censure, not the character of those who have acted in it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato. The Republic.
- I am not ignorant how much I have been censured for mentioning this last particular. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Has not the intemperate been censured of old, because in him the huge multiform monster is allowed to be too much at large? Plato. The Republic.
- He was taken up, censured, and imprisoned for a month, by the speaker's warrant, I suppose, because he would not discover the author. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- My privacy invaded, my actions censured, my friends insulted? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Such is their manner of praising the one and censuring the other. Plato. The Republic.
- I would not wish to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Typist: Stacey