censure
noun
strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
was censuring
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past progressiveof censure.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gladys only vaguely understood, but gathered that she was censuring the old man with the utmost severity.
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
The rest remained outside, and presently the whole crowd was censuring those who had accepted the invitation.
From The Idiot by Eva M. Martin
That he declared in such a tone and manner that it was clearly seen that it was all for the governor, and that he was censuring me as infamous.
