Example sentences for: censured

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

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

  • This has, report the papers, encouraged Democrats to seek a compromise outcome short of impeachment--say, having Clinton testify before the House Judiciary Committee with a guarantee that he wouldn't be removed from office, although perhaps censured and/or fined.

  • 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 .

  • 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.


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