Example sentences for: censured

How can you use “censured” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even more to be censured were the peevish and fretful fretchards, the penny-pinching misards and muglards, the parasitic, hypocritical sycophants known as papelards (after Italian pappalardo one who eats bacon fat), the pilfering pillards , the pusillanimous snivelards , the deceitful trichards , and the loathsome loners called unkards .

  • More persecuted than censured were citizens who fell short of contemporary standards of physical perfection.

  • Biggest surprise: Tripp says that while Clinton should be censured, expelling him from office would be excessive.

  • But this pseudogenerosity is also a kind of cowardice: A critic may be censured for slamming a worthy movie; she may have to defend her judgment.

  • Since 1936, the American Association of University Professors has censured universities that do wrong to their faculties.


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