censure

• His "about face," therefore, was unexceptionable Very well, Grant," said the drill master, in a satirical tone, and with a patronizing air Your praise and your censure are all the same to me. —  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
• At the same time I feel happy to qualify this censure, as I am generally given to understand that his Novels are of a more pure and unexceptionable nature than characterizes writings of a similar description; while at the same time his pen has been occupied in the production of works of a better and nobler order. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• The rigour of king's commissioner was softened by his official worth: nor is it necessary to search for a censure, amidst such concurrence of praise. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• His expenditure greatly exceeded his official income; and while the plainness of his establishment and entertainments was the topic of thoughtless censure, the charities of his family were scattered with a liberal hand. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• I hold in my hand the monitors' book, open at the page on which our censure was written. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School

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