Censure vs Sarcasm - What's the difference?
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The act of blaming]], criticizing, or [[condemn, condemning as wrong; reprehension.
* Macaulay
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
* William Shakespeare Hamlet , Act I, scene III:
to criticize harshly
* Shakespeare
to formally rebuke
(obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(uncountable) A sharp form of humor, intended to hurt, that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis. Insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning.
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm , he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
(countable) An act of sarcasm.
Censure is a related term of sarcasm.
As a verb censure
is .As a noun sarcasm is
(uncountable) a sharp form of humor, intended to hurt, that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning.censure
English
(wikipedia censure)Noun
(en noun)- Both the censure and the praise were merited.
- excommunication or other censure of the church
- Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment.
Verb
(censur)- I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
- Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.