censoriousness

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Sometimes I think our censoriousness is not so much about protecting children as it is about preventing them from seeing the embarrassing silliness of adult behaviour.

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  1. The quality of being censorious or faultfinding; disposition to blame or condemn; the habit of censuring or severely criticizing. Censoriousness and sinister interpretation of things, all cross and distasteful humours, render the conversation of men grievous and uneasy. Tillotson.

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  • The virtue that fosters conceit and censoriousness is like a dyspeptic stomach, the owner of which is made all too sensible of it by the conversion of his food to wind,—a wind that puffs him up. —  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.
  • Someone whose “worm i' the bud” of their character has so completely spoilt its early flower on account of the “one ruinous vice” of “censoriousness,” of perpetual nagging, and fault-finding developed to such a pitch that it has eaten out at last the fair heart of human forbearance and kindness which is the birthright of everyone. —  Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • Sometimes I think our censoriousness is not so much about protecting children as it is about preventing them from seeing the embarrassing silliness of adult behaviour. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
  • The Blackadder actor, addressing a meeting of Lords on Tuesday, warned of creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech. —  Joe. My. God.
  • I dread something almost as bad - a culture of censoriousness, a questioning, negative and leaden attitude that is encouraged by legislation of this nature but is considerably and meaningfully alleviated by the free speech clause. —  Joe. My. God.
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