censorial
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a word derived from
censor.
censornounan official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
Example Sentences
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Could “Rule of the Bone” have fallen so far into obscurity that it’s not engaging disaffected teens and shocking a new generation of censorial politicians?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
The memory laws place censorial power in the hands of students and their parents.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The viral gags have irked China’s censorial government officials for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018
Marina Kostalevsky, co-editor of the new volume, said: “In our book, all texts are presented in their entirety and hence are not distorted by either prudish censorial cuts or selective cuts.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
A work of jurisprudence is either expository of what the law is, or censorial, showing what it should be.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton