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Definition

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

censured = formally criticized

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

censure = criticism

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
The Senate censured President Andrew Jackson for refusing to give them documents, but the censure was later repealed.
It was an expression of severe censure and moral condemnation.
...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)
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

...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

Don Quixote ... presently returned it saying, "In the little I have seen I have discovered three things in this author that deserve to be censured."
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

censured = criticized

But most potent in his education was the cuff of the master's hand, the censure of the master's voice.
Jack London -- White Fang

censure = criticism

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