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censorious

[sen-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-]

adjective

  1. severely critical; faultfinding; carping.



censorious

/ ɛˈɔːɪə /

adjective

  1. harshly critical; fault-finding

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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of censorious1

1530–40; < Latin ŧԲōܲ of a censor, hence, austere, moral; censor, -tory 1
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Example Sentences

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But the council’s censorious plans for the library made them “outraged, and this was enough,” said Carryl.

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Perhaps to the dismay of the censorious, it is also instructional.

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The West can be just as censorious as China, he said Tuesday.

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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."

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"We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans," the open letter states.

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