Synonyms for censure
ˈsɛn ʃərcen·sure

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1. censure

   Arraign is an official word; a person accused of crime is arraigned when he is formally called into court, the indictment read to him, and the demand made of him to plead guilty or not guilty; in more extended use, to arraign is to call in question for fault in any formal, public, or official way. One may charge another with any fault, great or trifling, privately or publicly, formally or informally. Accuse is stronger than charge, suggesting more of the formal and criminal; a person may charge a friend with unkindness or neglect; he may accuse a tramp of stealing. Censure carries the idea of fault, but not of crime; it may be private and individual, or public and official. A judge, a president, or other officer of high rank may be impeached before the appropriate tribunal for high crimes; the veracity of a witness may be impeached by damaging evidence. A person of the highest character may be summoned as defendant in a civil suit; or he may be cited to answer as administrator, etc. Indict and arraign apply strictly to criminal proceedings, and only an alleged criminal is indicted or arraigned. One is indicted by the grand jury, and arraigned before the appropriate court.

   Synonyms:
   accuse, arraign, charge, cite, impeach, indict, prosecute, summon

   Antonyms:
   acquit, condone, discharge, excuse, exonerate, forgive, overlook, pardon, pardon, release, set free

   Preposition:
   Arraign at the bar, before the tribunal, of or for a crime; on or upon an indictment.

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1. censure

   Synonyms:
   blame, stricture, reproach, reprobate, inculpate, reprove, condemn, reprehend, chide, berate, scold, upbraid, disapproval, remonstrance, rebuke, reprimand, dispiaise

   Antonyms:
   praise, eulogy, approbation, encouragement, commendation

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1. censure, animadversionnoun

   harsh criticism or disapproval

   Synonyms:
   animadversion, exclusion, excommunication

2. excommunication, exclusion, censureverb

   the state of being excommunicated

   Synonyms:
   exception, ejection, excision, excommunication, riddance, animadversion, exclusion, expulsion, elision

3. reprimand, censure, criminateverb

   rebuke formally

   Synonyms:
   accuse, scold, trounce, berate, lambast, bawl out, reproof, dress down, impeach, chide, lecture, chew up, call down, take to task, call on the carpet, rebuke, jaw, incriminate, reprimand, rag, remonstrate, have words, lambaste, chew out, criminate

Matched Categories

1. • Condemnation

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1. censurenoun

   Synonyms:
   blame, disapprobation, disapproval, condemnation, reproof, reproach, reprobation, reprehension, rebuke, reprimand, animadversion, stricture

2. censureverb

   Synonyms:
   blame, reproach, reprove, chide, reprehend, OVERHAUL, reprimand, rate, berate, scold, find fault with, pass censure on, take to task, bring to book, call over the coals, haul over the coals, call to account, come down upon, snap up, BLOW UP

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1. censurenoun

   Synonyms:
   reproof, reprehension, blame, reprimand, objurgation

2. censureverb

   Synonyms:
   reprove, rebuke, reprehend, upbraid, objurgate, chide, inveigh against

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1. List of paraphrases for "censure":

   censorship, censor, no-confidence, reprimand, censored, disapproval, non-confidence, mistrust, blame, distrust, admonition, condemnation, reproach

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How to use censure in a sentence?

1. Leonardo DaVinci:

   You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

2. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism:

   Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

3. Richter:

   When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so.

4. Proverb:

   The praise of fools is censure in disguise.

5. Plato:

   Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.