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
It is easy to find a censurer of the sins of the land, but hard to find a true mourner for the sins of the land.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
"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
Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
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
