censure
/ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/ verb C2- To criticize harshly.
- To formally rebuke.
He/she/it censures · Past censured · Past participle censured · -ing form censuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- censure
- He/she/it
- censures
- Past
- censured
- Past participle
- censured
- -ing form
- censuring
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You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think.”
“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”
Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be prevailed on to join in their censure of _her_, in spite of all Miss Bingley’s witticisms on _fine eyes_.
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