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  • verb Present participle of censure.

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Examples

  • L. 's, &c., and he stands alone compleatly in censuring the portrait, those who know me best and see me talk, are struck with the 'character' as they call it, it is the first and the only one that gives the idea of a little fellow.

    Letter 74 2009

  • They all joined every single Republican Senator in censuring MoveOn. org's advertisement in the New York Times.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • They all joined every single Republican Senator in censuring MoveOn. org's advertisement in the New York Times.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2007

  • Now this shows how apt we are, in censuring our brethren, to make the worst of every thing, and to set it out in the blackest colours, which is not doing as we would be done by, nor as our heavenly Father does by us, who is not extreme to mark iniquities.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Let us not therefore be harsh in censuring others, but carefully watch over ourselves when we are in trouble, Ps. xxxix.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • That they should be very strict in censuring those that were guilty of fornication, or marrying within the degrees prohibited by the Levitical law, which, some think, is principally intended here.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • And even moderate Democrats are silent or even embracing the notion of censuring the President for directing the NSA to listen in on enemy communications.

    Bull Moose 2006

  • And even moderate Democrats are silent or even embracing the notion of censuring the President for directing the NSA to listen in on enemy communications.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • In an interview with CNN, Tom Daschle said that the idea of censuring Trent Lott has now been put on hold.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2002 2002

  • When he closed his speech, which was quite as savage as any made against him, and infinitely abler, no one desired to reply, and the idea of censuring him was dropped.

    Hero Tales from American History Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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