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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“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_.
You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.”
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