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censure
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    The Senate censured President Andrew Jackson for refusing to give them documents, but the censure was later repealed.
    censured = formally criticized
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    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.  (source)
    censure = harsh criticism
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    Louie and the others filed into the barracks, waited for the guards to rush off to censure someone else, then stole out.  (source)
    censure = criticize
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    Sam asked out loud, censure in his tone.  (source)
    censure = harsh criticism
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    But error on the side of caution cannot be censured.  (source)
    censured = criticized
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    his censures proceeded from good-will  (source)
    censures = criticisms
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    Tolstoy, despite his famous advocacy of celibacy ... went on to father at least thirteen children, some of whom were conceived at the same time the censorious count was thundering in print against the evils of sex.  (source)
    censorious = tending to express harsh criticism
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    And the last thing the clan needs after the affair with Camille is a censuring by the Shadowhunters.†  (source)
    censuring = giving harsh or formal criticism
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    Such are his grosser representations of the gods; and the vicious and imperfect manners of his heroes; but I must here speak a word of the latter, as it is a point generally carried into extremes, both by the censurers and defenders of Homer.†  (source)
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    Zooey turned around to look at her, somewhat censoriously.†  (source)
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    "The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage," wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Tom was as rigid in religious as in money matters; he was a stern supervisor and censurer of his neighbors, and seemed to think every sin entered up to their account became a credit on his own side of the page.†  (source)
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    It was committed in the presence of slaves, and they of course could neither institute a suit, nor testify against him; and thus the guilty perpetrator of one of the bloodiest and most foul murders goes unwhipped of justice, and uncensured by the community in which he lives.†  (source)
    uncensured = not given harsh criticism
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncensured means not and reverses the meaning of censured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Let our just censures Attend the true event, and put we on Industrious soldiership.  (source)
censures = judgments
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