censure

Object

• proposition: Of interest to historians of philosophy is the list of censured propositions.
• government: Recent attempts to censure the Sudanese Government over Darfur at the Security Council have been effectively wrecked by the Chinese.

Converse of object

• escape: Kevin Lynch was lucky minutes later when he raised an elbow, but escaped censure.
• deserve: But the ruling community deserves a censure more severe than that directed against the ruled.
• attract: Q To be an atheist in his time was likely to attract public censure.
• avoid: These products are often aimed at the country or colonial market to avoid censure.
• pass: At the very least, such states should hear a motion of censure passed against them.
• face: They were charged with slander and faced censure or dismissal.

Adjective modifier

• ecclesiastical: William acknowledged that he had been constrained by ecclesiastical censure to make peace with Byland.
• severe: Accidental death with a severe censure for the mother.
• public: Q To be an atheist in his time was likely to attract public censure.
• such: Such censure arrived recently, from the least likely of sources.
• moral: Upon it will fall the moral censure which must accompany the change in our society's relationship to fossil fuels.

Modifies a noun

motion: The final vote on the censure motion takes place next month.

Modifying Another Word

• severely: The editor of Tablet severely censured A Handful of Dust on moral grounds.
• officially: For his part in it, Sir Henry was officially censured.
• also: The bench cautioned complainant not to sing songs or she would be in trouble, the mother was also censured.
• not: Let your answer be: It is enough for me, that God does not censure my conduct.
• much: As you can see the letter contains much censure and no praise.
• publicly: The regulator can publicly censure or fine a company or a director who is knowingly involved in a breach " she said.