Synonyms for censurer
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : sen-sher |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃər |
Top 10 synonyms for censurer Other synonyms for the word censurer
Définition of censurer
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]
- As in denouncer : noun accuser
- As in niggler : noun critic
- As in nitpicker : noun critic
- As in quibbler : noun critic
- As in critic : noun faultfinder, detractor
- The head-master had the generosity to bear his censurer no grudge for his outspokenness.
- Extract from : « The Silent Isle » by Arthur Christopher Benson
- Reflect′iveness; Reflect′or, one who, or that which, reflects: a mirror or polished reflecting surface: a censurer.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- It is easy to find a censurer of the sins of the land, but hard to find a true mourner for the sins of the land.
- Extract from : « The Covenants And The Covenanters » by Various
- Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.
- Extract from : « The Works of Horace » by Horace
- The censurer, and the censured, will stand at the same bar, and be tried by the same Judge.
- Extract from : « Sermons on Various Important Subjects » by Andrew Lee
Antonyms for censurer
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