Censure
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BAN
A decree that prohibits something

RAP
The sound made by a gentle blow

4 letters

READ
Be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"

DAMN
Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

HATE
The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

5 letters

BLAME
Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

SCOLD
Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

6 letters

DENVER
The state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river

REGRET
Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

REGRET
Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

IMPUGN
Attack as false or wrong

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ATTACK
An offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"

REBUKE
An act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

7 letters

CONTEMN
Look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

CHASTEN
Correct by punishment or discipline

REPROOF
An act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

REPROVE
Take to task; "He admonished the child for his bad behavior"

DEPLORE
Express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"

CONDEMN
Declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector"

8 letters

REPROACH
A mild rebuke or criticism; "words of reproach"

DENOUNCE
Speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis"

REPROVAL
An act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

9 letters

STRICTURE
Severe criticism

CRIMINATE
Rebuke formally

FULMINATE
Come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"

FULMINATE
Come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"

REPRIMAND
An act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

EXCLUSION
The act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"

CRITICISM
A written evaluation of a work of literature

CRITICISE
Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

10 letters

PUNISHMENT
The act of punishing

OPPROBRIUM
A state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city"

11 letters

DISAPPROVAL
The act of disapproving or condemning

12 letters

DENOUNCEMENT
A public act of denouncing

CONDEMNATION
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

13 letters

ANIMADVERSION
Harsh criticism or disapproval

15 letters

EXCOMMUNICATION
The act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society

CALLONTHECARPET
Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

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