censorable
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a word derived from
censor.
censornounan 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.
Example Sentences
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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
Most censorable sequence: mischievous Cicada pretending to commit suicide and then lying to both admirers about her reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It may be, from internal evidence in Thieves' Highway, that the Johnston Office is letting down the bars on what is and is not censorable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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