censure
noun
strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
are censuring
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present progressiveof censure.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Critics are censuring Mr. Warsh for turning his back on those goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ā Aug. 16, 2026
They are censuring the President again, whose popularity ebbs and flows.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
No two persons are ever more confidential and cordial than when they are censuring a third.
From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson
If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.
From Essays ā Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
