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词根:censure
n.censure 责难
vi.censure 谴责,责备
vt.censure 责难,责备
Adjective
1. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious;
"blameworthy if not criminal behavior"
"censurable misconduct"
"culpable negligence"
"应受谴责的",1630年代,来自 censure(动词)+ -able。相关词汇: Censurability。
censure >entry 2 + -able
The first known use of censurable was in 1602
1 Members of Parliament are censurable if they impute falsehood and scoundrelism to each other in a personal sense, but not censurable for making those imputations in a Parliamentary sense.
2 “The newspaper’s fact-based journalism and professional integrity have made it an important source of information on censurable aspects of Russian society rarely mentioned by other media,” it added.
3 Had Jacob not represented in his person a different community from Laban's, of which he was to be the Patriarch, his mode of acquiring wealth out of Laban would have been censurable.
4 Unfeelingness, the Saxon word that should be the exact equivalent of apathy, really means more, a lack of the feeling one ought to have, a censurable hardness of heart.
5 Christie’s surrender had been thought censurable both by General Amherst and by Bouquet.
6 "You may cry 'shame' upon me," he went on calmly, "and I realize, of course, that I am censurable in speaking thus of my rival."
7 He has his faults, it is true, properly censurable; but he has some very commendable virtues as well.
8 Which betrays censurable apathy, he who obstinately rushes headlong to the brink of a mighty precipice, or he who gives the timely warning to beware?
9 Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
10 Caroline and her mamma sailed for Europe the next day, and several letters Carrington wrote to her, giving a less censurable version of the little dinner to the little instructor, were returned to him unopened.
11 That delegate from home organization was excluded from the Boston convention, and that the same three defendants are responsible and censurable for that exclusion.
12 It's as commendable as anything ever has been—by which I mean it's intermediate to the commendable and the censurable.
13 In its lonely and neglected appearance, there was a silent but forcible comment upon that censurable neglect of the Sabbath, which, it has been said, prevails too generally among the citizens of New-Orleans.
14 If censurable things were being done in the prison management, the rulers were the parties for one to approach respecting them, those having the power to apply the remedy.
15 The thing itself was commendable and excellent; but in the means employed there was much that was censurable.
16 Yet this censurable habit does not seem to proceed from anything cynical in the author's own nature, but rather from inexperience, and from a personal directness which moves only in straight lines.
17 When a murderer, knowing his desert, becomes his own executioner, he is not censurable though still infamous, since it saves society the expense of terminating his dangerous career.
18 "Beyond the Law," by Mary Faye Durr, is a light short story of excellent idea and construction, whose only censurable point is the use of "simplified" spelling.
19 the censurable language on the poster resulted in it being taken down
20 Formlessness in art is always censurable and in music can never win pardon by a programme or by 'what the composer was thinking.'
2 该谴责的
3 应受谴责
4 该责备的