Synonyms of the word

censure

• n. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
• n. An official reprimand.
• n. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
• n. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
• v. To criticize harshly.
• v. To formally rebuke.
• v. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

animadversion

• n. (countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.

condemnation

• n. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
• n. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming…
• n. The state of being condemned.
• n. The ground or reason of condemning.
• n. The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.

criminate

• v. (transitive, construed with of) To accuse, incriminate, impeach.
• v. (transitive, construed with of) To rebuke, censure, reprimand.

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

disapprobation

• n. An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.

exclusion

• n. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
• n. (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
• n. An item not covered by an insurance policy.

excommunication

• n. The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby…

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

rejection

• n. The act of rejecting.
• n. The state of being rejected.
• n. (sports) A blocked shot.

reprimand

• n. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
• v. To reprove in a formal or official way.