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censorious
[ sen-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr- ]
adjective
- severely critical; faultfinding; carping.
censorious
/ sɛnˈsɔːrɪəs /
adjective
- harshly critical; fault-finding
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Derived Forms
- cenˈsoriousness, noun
- cenˈsoriously, adverb
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Other Words From
- cen·sori·ous·ly adverb
- cen·sori·ous·ness noun
- anti·cen·sori·ous adjective
- anti·cen·sori·ous·ly adverb
- anti·cen·sori·ous·ness noun
- noncen·sori·ous adjective
- noncen·sori·ous·ly adverb
- noncen·sori·ous·ness noun
- over·cen·sori·ous adjective
- over·cen·sori·ous·ly adverb
- over·cen·sori·ous·ness noun
- uncen·sori·ous adjective
- uncen·sori·ous·ly adverb
- uncen·sori·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of censorious1
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Example Sentences
Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age.
But amid all the censorious protests against “self-censorship” an important legal principle has been ignored.
After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father.
They judged him by a censorious standard which took no account of genius.
Yes, and she is a curious being to pretend to be censorious—an awkward thing, without any one good point under the sun.
He forgot the delicate and uncertain state of his marital affairs, forgot the censorious world, his ennui and doubt and regret.
The Bishop is especially incensed at the censer; and waxes censorious about the wax lights.
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