censurable

[sen-sher-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. deserving censure or blame.

censurable

/ ˈsɛnʃərəbəl /

adjective

1. deserving censure, condemnation, or blame

Other Word Forms

• censurably adverb
• censurableness noun
• censurability noun
• noncensurable adjective
• noncensurableness noun
• noncensurably adverb
• uncensurable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of censurable¹

First recorded in 1625–35; censure + -able

Example Sentences

He said he believes some medical board members are waiting for him to cross into censurable ground, such as by disclosing privileged information from a closed-session meeting.

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“The newspaper’s fact-based journalism and professional integrity have made it an important source of information on censurable aspects of Russian society rarely mentioned by other media,” it added.

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“The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage,” wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair.

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Formlessness in art is always censurable and in music can never win pardon by a programme or by 'what the composer was thinking.'

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Christie’s surrender had been thought censurable both by General Amherst and by Bouquet.

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