censure

Girls and women who have their mother's names do not face the same censure - and often when they marry may opt to take their husband's first name as their surname.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Fine has not appeared fearful of censure or any loss of his committee assignments.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Kelly filed a lawsuit in January that accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating his First Amendment rights by moving to formally censure him and demote him over the video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

I won’t be afraid of him or of Prince Dain’s censure.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the statement continued.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

Gorsuch said that Congress has been censuring members since the 19th century and that “elected bodies in this country issued no fewer than 20 censures in August 2020 alone.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

The verdict in state court and the federal charges amount to extraordinary censures of law enforcement officials, who rarely face charges for using deadly force.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Writing in the Nouvelles de la République des Lettres for April 1684, Bayle censures Maimbourg for charging Protestantism with sedition, and alleges the Oxford decree of the preceding year condemning Buchanan and Milton.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide

Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025

They subsequently won back their seats in special elections, while a third legislator, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, was censured but not expelled.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

It does not necessarily guarantee that he will not be censured, or fired, if his remarks violate his employer’s rules or standards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

The Senate investigators didn’t agree; the committee censured the police superintendent.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

“It’s just a document. OK, you’re censuring me. Great.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023

Yet years later, as head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he was emphatic in asserting Rome’s authority, censuring theologians and advocating greater freedom to use the Latin Mass.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

The Russians were censuring his behavior in front of his friends and the world press.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady