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censorable

  • a word derived from censor.
    censor
    noun
    an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.

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In Tinker, the court drew a clear distinction between student speech in school and speech outside of school, holding only the former to be censorable.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2016

One can say without much doubt that if a book is censored, other people will want to find out what was censorable about it.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2012

During long silent passages, the characters narrow their eyes at one another, conveying reams of censorable prose in each perfervid glance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the one hand, the worse the censorable wish, the greater the distortion; on the other hand, however, the stricter the censor himself is at any particular time the greater the distortion will be also.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud