censure
IPA: sˈɛnʃɝ
noun
- The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
- An official reprimand.
- Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
- (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
verb
- To criticize harshly.
- To formally rebuke.
- (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
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Examples of "censure" in Sentences
- Critics praised and censured the publication.
- The behavior in the censure runs over several years.
- The Senate approved the motion to censure Jackson in 1834.
- As you said earlier, the party could censure the politician.
- The congregation is censured, but the censure is later repealed.
- However, the committee voted unanimously to censure the governor.
- I would appreciate your lifting the undeserved censure and ban on me.
- Cherem is the highest ecclesiastical censure in the Jewish community.
- Comparable in size in the 20th century was the censure of Joe McCarthy.
- In this case the four are the Gossips Mirth, Tattle, Expectation, and Censure.