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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Tending to censure; highly critical.
  2. adj. Expressing censure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in commenting on others or on their actions, manners, writings, etc.; captious; carping: as, a censorious critic.
  2. Implying or expressing censure: as, censorious remarks.
  3. Synonyms Hypercritical, faultfinding, carping, captious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  2. adj. Implying or expressing censure.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  2. adj. Implying or expressing censure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. harshly critical or expressing censure

Etymologies

  1. Latin cēnsōrius, of a censor, from cēnsor, Roman censor; see censor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “My friend Michelle Minton argues that high tech firms trying to do business in censorious China ought to take their ball and go home in principled protest against the Green Dam Youth Escort program.”

    Only Nextel Could Go to China

  • “So people who are concerned about the ongoing pandemic of men's violence against women -- including thousands of domestic violence and sexual assault advocates and educators - are "censorious" if they have a problem with lyrics that normalize and find humor in (fictional) rapists 'misogynist fantasies of brutality and degradation?”

    Jackson Katz: Eminem, Misogyny, and the Sounds of Silence

  • “One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject.”

    Tracking the Untrackable

  • “Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel.”

    orrologion

  • “[154] It is sufficient to read the '' censorious '' texts '' against the rebaptizers '' of the eighteenth century that this issue gave rise to.”

    orrologion

  • “Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules?”

    Gawker

  • censorious," meaning faultfinding, is derived from the name of these ancient officials.”

    Early European History

  • “NEW YORK — Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as “Cabot Wright Begins” and “Eustace Chisholm and the Works” inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died.”

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

  • “Except that several comments did in fact bring up campus speech codes, the Harvard email controversy and other such side issues as examples of “the left” and its censorious impulses.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin

  • “Dressing like your Aunt Dahlia DOES NOT mean I am prim, censorious and frigid.”

    The Guardian: Are SlutWalkers losing their way? | Victoria Coren

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  • brtom But the world is so censorious, no character escapes.
    Sheridan, School for Scandal Jan 6, 2008

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