censure
noun
strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
uncensured
-
a word derived from
censure.
Example Sentences
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In the 1830s, after one Senate majority censured President Andrew Jackson for undermining the Second Bank of the United States, a successor majority later "uncensured" him.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
Skillfully dividing and goading the Deputies into ineffectual quarreling, he escaped uncensured.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lancelot is the real hero of the old "Morte Darthur," and Guinivere—the Helen of romance—goes almost uncensured.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
If I do not punish him, I allow a flagrant and open violation of discipline to pass uncensured, which will be injurious to the service.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
Let the young and happy swains Playing on the Britain plains Court unblamed their shepherdesses, And with their gold curled tresses Toy uncensured, until I Grudge at their prosperity.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
