Sentence examples for is censured from inspiring English sources
verb
To criticize harshly.
Anything off the beaten path, structurally, is censured.
A satire, said Samuel Johnson, is a composition "in which wickedness or folly is censured".
The great English lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined satire as "a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured," and more elaborate definitions are rarely more satisfactory.
It has been suggested that the Commission's ruling may be watered down so that Apple is censured but not compelled to hand over any of the taxes it avoided through its "sweetheart" deal.
The supine Anne Stevenson, in contrast, is censured for caving in under the pressure of the evil sister and writing a book that Alvarez sees as "more than 350 pages of disparagement".
The slaughter is blamed on a fellow-student, Lord Poxe, who is censured by the Warden with the words "It was a foolish act, Lord Poxe, an act of wanton foolishness, but I do not wish to be hard on you.... Lady Emily Crane, your great aunt, you will remember, married a Mr Arthur Thorn, my grandfather.
The problem is, censuring people's words does nothing to change their hearts and minds.
Lying politicians were censured.
Yet Mr Thackeray has hardly been censured.
He was censured by the commission.
Welles was censured for creating public hysteria.
