'severe censure' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when criticizing someone or something strongly. For example, "The press released severe censure on the government's handling of the situation."
Stevens won the war but faced severe censure in Washington for his means.
On his watch, officials benefiting from state tenders should expect severe censure.
If they are not followed, the artist can bring upon himself the severe censure of his social group and the displeasure or even wrath of the spirit power inherent in the mask.
BP and its corporate associates certainly deserve severe censure for their failure to provide adequate safeguards for their hazardous operations, and their behavior brings to mind the recent reckless folly of the banks.
Although Confucius initially escaped severe censure by Mao, in the early 1970s he became "No. 1 hooligan," the embodiment of the hated "four olds" (old culture, old ideology, old customs and old habits), a symbol of ruling-class oppression.
Vives' severe censure of scholastic logic derived from his own unhappy experience with the scholastic curriculum at Paris.
No official should have to suffer the sort of treatment that Tom Henning Ovrebo endured in the minutes after the final whistle, and Drogba's extended outburst – from which neither John Terry nor Guus Hiddink could dissuade him – deserves the severest censure, particularly since it was immediately reflected in the behaviour of the home fans, whose stunned silence quickly turned to rage.
A reprimand is not as severe as censure or expulsion, but it is a significant embarrassment, and in this case involved what the committee described as violations of federal law and House rules.
Any self-confident, self-assertive woman is out of step with prevalent gender norms, and a mother who is not unstintingly devoted to her children is likely to be perceived as selfish or even a welfare "fraud" and to face severe social censure and deprivation of social services (Sparks 2015).
The only punishment more severe than a censure is the removal of a judge from office.
As part of a compromise to win the support of all nine committee members, the report will also suggest that senators vote on a separate less severe resolution to censure Mr. Monserrate and strip him of his seniority and committee chairmanship.
