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
Finally, the Playgoerhas dug up an amusing anecdote about the state that British theatre existed in when it lived under the censorial quill of the Lord Chamberlain.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2010
It may be more advisable to leave such matters to the enlightened discretion of a judge, awed by a censorial House of Commons.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke