Censure /SEN-sher/

verb to discover blame with and scrutinize as reprehensible

Examples:

"The Government's energy to control the press was annulled with the goal that the press would remain always allowed to rebuke the Government." — Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, New York Times v. Joined States, 1971

"No president has ever been expelled by arraignment. No president has ever been arraigned. No president has been reproached since 1860." — Hannah Ryan, Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2017

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Reproach and its equivalent words reprimand, reprove, denounce, and revile all basically signify "to discover blame with straightforwardly." Additionally, scold conveys a solid recommendation of specialist and regularly alludes to an official activity. Censure infers discovering flaw with somebody's strategies, approaches, or goals, as in "the observer reprimanded the supervisor's warm up area methodology." Reprehend infers sharp feedback or dissatisfaction, as in "an instructor who reproves poor linguistic use." Condemn for the most part recommends a last horrible judgment, as in "the gathering censured the court's choice." Denounce adds to denounce the ramifications of an open revelation, as in "her letter to the editorial manager decried the degenerate activities of the leader's office."

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