Antonyms for censured
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : sen-sher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃər |
Definition of censured
Origin :- 1580s, from censure (n.) or else from French censurer, from censure (n.). Related: Censured; censuring.
- Such men are so watchful to censure, that the have seldom much care to look for favourable interpretations of ambiguities, to set the general tenor of life against single failures, or to know how soon any slip of inadvertency has been expiated by sorrow and retractation; but let fly their fulminations, without mercy or prudence, against slight offences or casual temerities, against crimes never committed, or immediately repented. [Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
- verb condemn; criticize severely
- It censured Mrs. McKee severely for having been, so to speak, and accessory after the fact.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- They censured the mayor for his weakness and called for the militia.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- Let me not be censured for mentioning such minute particulars.
- Extract from : « James Boswell » by William Keith Leask
- Does he ever venture to vindicate his conduct, when censured for it?
- Extract from : « The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass » by Frederick Douglass
- Her conduct would unquestionably be criticised and censured.
- Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- I was censured especially by the Major, for cruelty to animals.
- Extract from : « A Canyon Voyage » by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
- These, however, are deficiencies in story, for which no man is now to be censured.
- Extract from : « A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland » by Samuel Johnson
- Those who should have advised him censured; those who had influence for good held aloof.
- Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
- The orator is censured and the censure entered in the journal.
- Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
- The measure mentioned in it, I presume will not be censured.
- Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII » by Various
Synonyms for censured
- abuse
- admonish
- animadvert
- asperse
- attack
- backbite
- berate
- blame
- carp at
- castigate
- cavil
- chastise
- chide
- contemn
- cut up
- denigrate
- denounce
- deprecate
- disapprove
- discipline
- disparage
- exprobate
- find fault with
- get after
- impugn
- incriminate
- judge
- knock
- lecture
- look askance
- ostracize
- pick apart
- pull apart
- read out
- rebuff
- rebuke
- remonstrate
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- scold
- take to task
- tear apart
- tell off
- upbraid
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