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censorious
[sen-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-]
adjective
severely critical; faultfinding; carping.
censorious
/ ɛˈɔːɪə /
adjective
harshly critical; fault-finding
Other Word Forms
- censoriously adverb
- censoriousness noun
- anticensorious adjective
- anticensoriously adverb
- anticensoriousness noun
- noncensorious adjective
- noncensoriously adverb
- noncensoriousness noun
- overcensorious adjective
- overcensoriously adverb
- overcensoriousness noun
- uncensorious adjective
- uncensoriously adverb
- uncensoriousness noun
- ˈǰdzܲԱ noun
- ˈǰdzܲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of censorious1
Example Sentences
But the council’s censorious plans for the library made them “outraged, and this was enough,” said Carryl.
Perhaps to the dismay of the censorious, it is also instructional.
The West can be just as censorious as China, he said Tuesday.
Beauchamp portrays this as a fight between Christian conservatives and "Barstool conservatives," who he describes as dude-bros less interested in Jesus and more in hating "what they see as censorious political correctness."
"We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans," the open letter states.
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