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censuring
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Example Sentences
The county would end up filing a lawsuit in August against Viet America Society and censuring Do in September.
In an exactly split tally, half of voting members supported censuring Block, but the measure did not pass because it required a simple majority.
In the USC Academic Senate’s vote, 21 members favored censuring the president and provost, seven opposed, and six abstained.
The university senate is expected to vote, possibly as early as Wednesday, on a resolution censuring Dr. Shafik, a reaction to her testimony before Congress and the arrests of more than 100 student protesters.
He was a leading voice during Trump’s two impeachments, prompting House Republicans to take the extraordinary step of censuring him after they gained control of the chamber.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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