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Definition

harsh criticism; or formal criticism from an organization — such as the U.S. Senate

censured = formally criticized

The union agreed that she deserves censure, but does not think she should lose her job.

censure = criticism

In spite of the censure of her colleagues, she believed she had done the right thing.

censure = criticism

The Senate censured President Andrew Jackson for refusing to give them documents, but the censure was later repealed.

censured = formally criticized

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy
...after his Senate censure in December 1954, Joseph McCarthy was as good as dead.
Lee Edwards -- The Origins of the Modern American Conservative Movement -- http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL811.cfm (retrieved 06/29/06)
It was an expression of severe censure and moral condemnation.
I feared ridicule and censure.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

censure = criticism

censured = criticized

You are to be pitied, Mr Conklin, not censured.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

censured = given harsh or formal criticism

'That's your own fault,' Milo censured them both selfrighteously.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

censured = criticized

I'm no longer afraid of censure by my colleagues or of being without the Academy, for I walked out myself and can never return.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

censure = harsh or formal criticism

So far from being decorated, he had been censured for showing cowardice in the battle.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

censured = formally criticized

...cannot escape the censure which no doubt be deserves,
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!

censure = harsh or formal criticism

...To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture. O, enforce it!
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

censure = harsh or formal criticism

The rest remained outside, and presently the whole crowd was censuring those who had accepted the invitation.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

censuring = criticizing

I am not ignorant how much I have been censured for mentioning this last particular.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

censured = criticized

...those long since passed beyond the feeble censure of the world.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

censure = criticism

How can it be explained, not only to loved ones left behind, but to a censorious public?
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

censorious = critical

You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

censured = criticized

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