censure
noun
strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
censurer
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a word derived from
censure.
Example Sentences
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When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt."
From Time Magazine Archive
May Allah never make you parting dree * And be your censurer shamed wearily!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But the candid peer, in imitation of the poets of the days of Louis XIV and Charles II continued to be the censurer and eulogist of himself.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
"I have observed," said I, "that the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it."
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
Let not the reader, from these remarks, suppose that their author is a morose censurer of the times; or that the least sneer is intended against that idol of all orthodoxy "things as they are."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various
