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Definition of Censurable
1. Adjective. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious. "Culpable negligence"
Similar to: Guilty
Derivative terms: Blame, Blame, Blame, Blame, Blame, Blameworthiness, Culpability, Culpableness
Definition of Censurable
1. a. Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Definition of Censurable
1. Adjective. Deserving of censure; blameworthy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Censurable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Censurable
Literary usage of Censurable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"censurable CONDUCT OF THE CLAIMANT § 337. General Principles. Topical Division.
It is often stated that allegiance and protection are correlative. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Congregational Usages and Principles, According to Ancient by Preston Cummings (1852)
"Soc. Col. series i. vol. ix. 30. 9 Page 8. 6 Ib. 75. 7 Pages 25, 26. 8 Objections
to Rev. P. Thacher's Ordination, 22. PASTOR, is he censurable by his ..."
3. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"... General Schuyler was in no degree censurable for the unfortunate occurrences
therein enumerated, having done all in his power to provide against them. ..."
4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... will or writing be censurable ——— " in the star-chamber, which is but a wrong
to a " private man, how much more the forgery of an " article of religion, ..."
5. The Library Companion, Or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1825)
"... our dramatic performances, I should be censurable if I did not allow him a
foremost place in the foremost rank of the DRAMATIC WORTHIES of his Country. ..."
6. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America: From the by United States Dept. of State (1833)
"Perhaps it may be thought, that the appointment of Mr. Lamb was censurable in
the moment in which it was made. It is a piece of justice, therefore, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1908)
"It is very censurable, however, fur its promiscuous bathing, with machines that
have no awnings. Bognor owes its origin to the late ..."
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