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  • This time we can't censor your letter.  (source)
    censor = remove anything considered objectional
  • They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind ... official censors, judges, and executors.  (source)
    censors = people who decide what should be removed or suppressed
  • Lawrence, for instance, had numerous novels suppressed and undertook a monumental battle with the British censors.  (source)
    censors = people who decide what should be removed or suppressed from entertainment because it is considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
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  • Given the hardships of the 1930s, the Count supposed he could understand why Shalamov (or his superiors) had insisted upon this little bit of censorship—having presumed that Chekhov's observation could only lead to feelings of discontent or ill will.†  (source)
    censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
  • Jutta sends letters that the school censor blacks out almost completely.†  (source)
    censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable  OR  a person who does such suppression
  • Because I was unsure of my own adult voice and often censored myself, I made up another voice, Esperanza's, to be my voice and ask the things I needed answers to myself-  (source)
    censored = suppressed (didn't allow to say)
  • The letter had been opened by the censors—held by them, too: the postmark was over a week old.†  (source)
    censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable  OR  people who does such suppression
  • You're censoring the facts?" asked Miss Kraken incredulously.†  (source)
    censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
  • I'll give you the uncensored version.  (source)
    uncensored = not edited to remove things considered improper
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncensored means not and reverses the meaning of censored. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • *c A censorial power of this excessive kind would be revolting to the population of the most absolute monarchies; here, however, it is submitted to without difficulty.†  (source)
  • There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.†  (source)
  • There is too much censorship of reality in the classroom.†  (source)
    censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
  • The point is, my grandmother was never a censor; she simply believed that Owen and I should go to bed at a "decent" hour.†  (source)
    censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable  OR  a person who does such suppression
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