(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
(v.) Hurt; injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(2) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(3) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(4) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(5) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
(6) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(9) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(10) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(11) President Nicolás Maduro has blamed the crisis on the fall in global oil prices, a drought that has hit hydroelectric power generation, and an “economic war” by rightwing businessmen and politicians.
(12) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(13) Our failure to understand kidney function in the neonate does not justify shifting the blame for unwanted disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic acidosis, and azotemia to a small kidney.
(14) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
(15) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
(16) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
(17) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(18) I can’t stay here anymore.” When his mother calls, he says, he refuses to talk to her, blaming her in part for his predicament.
(19) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
Censorious
Definition:
(a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
(a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a friend since Cambridge, agrees with Stoppard that despite sometimes sounding "over censorious, he is actually incredibly warm hearted and very forgiving.
(2) There may be subject matter that I think is in breach of our guidelines and it would be up for me to discuss it with him and grade how censorious you are and how clear you are and what sanction you take.
(3) The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa , where newspapers had a field day.
(4) Instead of erupting upwards in ways which surprise, delight and occasionally shock, it travels censoriously and prescriptively down the pyramid.
(5) In our weirdly censorious era, there are too many demands for people to be sacked or forced to resign, too many campaigns and petitions for people with unfashionable views to have their visas cancelled.
(6) Indeed it seems almost to invite the studied censoriousness of the 19th centrury with women again stigmatised as a source of degradation and disease.
(7) Sony’s latest censorious move arrived on Monday, when Vice reported that the studio’s high-priced lawyer David Boies ( of Bush v Gore and anti-Prop 8 fame ) sent a threatening letter to Twitter warning it to delete a specific Twitter account that was tweeting TMZ-friendly emails about Brad Pitt and others found in the “Guardians of Peace” data.
(8) He argued that Google’s decision over what to index should be seen as “editorial judgement”, the same as a newspaper’s decision about what goes on its front page, and that the state interfering in that decision is censorious.
(9) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(10) I remember during the last administration, you were critical and censorious of it.
(11) The result is arguably a more censorious environment, one in which your movements and behaviour are more strictly policed, officially and unofficially.
(12) Merkel was doubtless not so indelicate or censorious as to consult her watch, a simple crossing of the arms would suffice.
(13) I noted this censoriously 40 years ago, when homophobia was more common than it is now, and it seems even more offensive today.
(14) Just as we have got to grips with the dominant “male gaze” that subjects and contorts the female form, we must now contend with the “machine gaze” – more censorious than an overprotective dad and as relentless as the Terminator.
(15) Moyles and, more recently, Jonathan Ross have both criticised the censorious atmosphere that prevails at the BBC in the aftermath of the "Sachsgate" affair – Ross said he couldn't wait to leave.
(16) In his later essay on Gissing, Orwell describes the quintessential flavour of Gissing's world - "the grime, the stupidity, the ugliness, the sex-starvation, the furtive debauchery, the vulgarity, the bad manners, the censoriousness" - which sums up the world Orwell sought to capture and to criticise in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
(17) I thought he was quite censorious of David Cameron in a very calm, collected and quiet way,” she said.
(18) He criticised the use of injunctions and their more censorious successors, "super-injunctions", which prevent media organisations from reporting the fact they even exist.
(19) Over music provided by Ontario progressive rockers Christmas, a series of crudely drawn information films pictured stereotyped Tom of Finland-type lumberjacks about to get down to business in Rocky Mountain log cabins, only to find the Aids Ptarmigan fluttering around their heads advising them to act responsibly, squawking his catchphrase: “We see thee rise!” Needless to say, Chilliwack the Aids Ptarmigan swiftly became the butt of a thousand Canadian standup comedy routines and his short-lived, sex-fearing reign of gay terror has been largely erased from cyberspace by censorious and retrospectively ashamed Canadian public health bodies.
(20) The app is illustrated with the current cover, a cartoon of the prophet Muhammed, in a change from the norm for Apple’s notoriously censorious App Store which has previous banned satirical and controversial apps.