uncensured

Not formally criticized

Uncensured means not formally criticized or officially rebuked.

A politician who survives an ethics investigation uncensured avoids the formal condemnation of their peers.

The word appears most often in legislative and institutional contexts where censure is a specific procedural action: The senator emerged from the hearing uncensured but politically damaged.

approval

uncriticized

Not subjected to fault-finding

unblameableIncapable of being faulted
faultlessFree from any defect
blamelessFree of wrongdoing

unindicted · exonerated · vindicated · cleared · absolved · acquitted · unquestioned · uncontested · unchallenged · undisputed

conduct

unpunished

Lacking deserved consequences

unpenalizedNot facing consequences
undisciplinedLacking self-control or order
uncorrectedNot fixed or revised

unrebuked · unsanctioned · overlooked · excused · pardoned · forgiven · tolerated · permitted · allowed · condoned

speech

unsilenced

Not made to stop

outspokenFreely expressing opinions
unrestrictedHaving no limitations
uninhibitedFree from self-censorship

unrestrained · unedited · unchecked · unbanned · permitted · unprohibited · tolerated · unpunished · free-spoken · unretracted

Opposites

official reprimand status

uncensuredcensured

Formally disapproved of

reprimanded · condemned · rebuked · denounced · admonished

degree of criticism received

uncensuredcensured

Formally disapproved of

excoriated · castigated · vilified · pilloried · lambasted

Family

censure, censor, censorship, censored, uncensored, censorious, censors, censoring, censured

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