Both Uses of
censure
in
Main Street
- They were born old, grim and old and spying and censorious.†
Chpt 9 *
- And for all their talk of the need of additional library-tax none of them was willing to risk censure by battling for it, though they now had so small a fund that, after paying for rent, heat, light, and Miss Villets's salary, they had only a hundred dollars a year for the purchase of books.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(censure) harsh criticism; or formal criticism from an organization -- such as the U.S. Senate