censurable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- censurability noun
- censurableness noun
- censurably adverb
- noncensurable adjective
- noncensurableness noun
- noncensurably adverb
- uncensurable adjective
Etymology
Origin of censurable
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2021
“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.
From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2021
Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident."
From Time Magazine Archive
“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.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
But I deny that, questionable or censurable as the act may be, it was one that necessarily called for our direct and hostile opposition.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
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