What's the difference between accuse and censure?

Accuse


Definition:

  • (n.) Accusation.
  • (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
  • (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
  • (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
  • (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (5) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (6) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (7) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (8) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (10) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (11) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (12) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (13) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (15) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (17) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
  • (18) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (19) The Iranians have accused the Israelis and the US of designing and deploying Stuxnet, which set some of their centrifuges spinning out of control.
  • (20) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?

Censure


Definition:

  • (n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
  • (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
  • (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
  • (v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
  • (v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
  • (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
  • (v. i.) To judge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As ever in children's books, when things get too complicated, animal characters can provide a useful way out, but even then, attempts to represent same-sex parenting can attract censure - as revealed by Justin Richardson's And Tango Makes Three , illustrated by Henry Cole.
  • (2) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (3) And the programme was censured by the BBC Trust's editorial standards unit three years ago when its presenters were filmed drinking while driving in the Artic for a special "polar" edition.
  • (4) A branch of the Labour party of Malaysia was censured for staging a concert at which "two objectionable songs were sung in spite of the fact that the police had registered their disapproval".
  • (5) BBC director of news Helen Boaden was censured for not taking "greater responsibility" as her division went into "virtual meltdown" in October and November.
  • (6) If it does find that there were systemic failures behind the technology problems, the bank could face a fine, or individuals could be censured and banned.
  • (7) In deciding on a suspension, the panel rejected the alternative sanctions of a censure or an order for Mr Livingstone to undergo training.
  • (8) The charity's chief executive, Javed Khan, said: "Victims of sexual abuse should be praised for their bravery in coming forward, not censured and have their credibility called into question – least of all by the prosecution."
  • (9) The company has already attracted formal censure over its cheerfully casual approach to taking on debt; in January it was forced to remove a page from its website that suggested its loans had advantages over student loans (neglecting to mention its APR of 4,214% and the current student loan rate of 1.5%), and inviting students to borrow money from them for things such as holiday flights to the Canaries.
  • (10) Jeremy Clarkson faced further censure on Saturday after describing people who killed themselves by jumping under trains as "selfish".
  • (11) It is no longer possible for clinicians in the UK to act independently in the management of such cases without risking censure or loss of indemnity from the employing health authority.
  • (12) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
  • (13) Dismissing the Socialists' censure motion threat as "puerile", Rajoy said: "I came [to parliament] to halt the erosion of Spain's image."
  • (14) But this, too, is a common enough reality: why should it be mocked or censured?
  • (15) Romanians described this as "auto-censure" – self-censorship – and said that it was far more effective than the Securitate, the secret police.
  • (16) The thinking behind WhatsApp is rooted in Koum's memories of a country where phones were tapped and school friends were censured for their views.
  • (17) Juncker voiced resentment that his entire team of 28 commissioners was being put on the spot by the censure motion, throwing down the gauntlet to the far right.
  • (18) Holder had been a lightning rod for opposition to administration policies among Republicans, who led a vote of censure against him in the House of Representatives in 2012 over ‘Fast and Furious’, a failed anti gun-running operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
  • (19) Censure brings the possibility of a stiffer sanction if the alleged violation is repeated.
  • (20) It did not censure the News of the World, however, and also dropped a plan to interview Andy Coulson after he resigned as the paper's editor in January 2007 in the wake of the Goodman case, choosing instead to question his successor, Colin Myler.