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as in reprimanding
to express public or formal disapproval of
a vote to censure the President for conduct that was unbecoming to his office
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as in denouncing
to declare to be morally wrong or evil
our society generally censures the taking of another person's life
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as in criticizing
to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of
critics have striven to outdo each other in censuring that pop novelist's latest work
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“Censuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censuring. Accessed 22 Sep. 2023.
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