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Synonyms for censurable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : sen-sher-uh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃər ə bəl



Définition of censurable

Origin :
  • 1630s, from censure + -able. Related: Censurability.
  • adj blameworthy
Example sentences :
  • Nor is there anything unusual or censurable in such an ambition.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent
  • He was not as censurable as he would have been had he not possessed these bad tendencies.
  • Extract from : « Tom, The Bootblack » by Horatio Alger
  • Censurable as that practice may appear, it belonged to the age of Sidney.
  • Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
  • If such feelings were censurable, they had their punishment.
  • Extract from : « Anne of Geierstein » by Walter Scott
  • The one will accuse it of excessive strictness; the other of censurable levity.
  • Extract from : « Coelebs In Search of a Wife » by Hannah More
  • If she were poor and friendless, it would not be half so censurable.
  • Extract from : « Cora and The Doctor » by Harriette Newell Baker
  • But Annie had so much manner, such a pleasant, assured voice, that somehow Norma never found it censurable in her.
  • Extract from : « The Beloved Woman » by Kathleen Norris
  • If a particular truth may be of any service to the state, your silence is censurable.
  • Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
  • This may be censurable in us, and doubtless it is; but, still, the charge lies more against our heads than our hearts.
  • Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
  • In the last speech beginning "This was the noblest Roman of them all" Mr. Cooper was censurable.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 » by Various

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