The Collaborative International Dictionary
Censure \Cen"sure\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Censured; p. pr. & vb. n. Censuring.] [Cf. F. ensurer.]
To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] ``Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.''
--Beau. & Fl.-
To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
--Shak. -
To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
--Shak.Syn: To blame; reprove; rebuke; condemn; reprehend; reprimand.
Wiktionary
n. An act of censure. vb. (present participle of censure English)
Usage examples of "censuring".
He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, "God knows where!
In any event, the investigator himself was under current investigation by a Senate subcommittee and after four years of national distress, the United States Senate in its ponderous way was now upon the verge of censuring McCarthy for having behaved discourteously in their house.
All kajidic representatives in favor of officially censuring and fining Besadii-vote now, yes or no, on the motion.
There was a man’s voice, deep and censuring, complaining that she hadn’t the wit to figure out the simplest of problems.