censurable

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adjective

Deserving of censure; blameworthy.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivecensurable (comparative more censurable, superlative most censurable)

comparative more censurable · superlative most censurable

  1. Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
    1 more example

    ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith, whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ...

    1648, Walter Montagu, “Of Scurrility”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia, London: W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, section 2, page 144

    Synonyms: culpable, to blame, at fault, blameworthy, culpable, guilty, nocent, reprehensible

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivedeserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan censurable
  • censurabledeserving of censure
French censurable
  • censurabledeserving of censure
Portuguese censurável
  • censuráveldeserving of censure
Spanish censurable
  • censurabledeserving of censure
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