Example Sentences

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Now, if I went about censoriously scolding people for not talking the way I talk or thinking the way I think, I doubt anyone would want what I’ve got.

From Fox News • May 7, 2020

And she minds terribly – is fearful "conservative" people will judge her mother censoriously.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

The blurred, black-and-white TV image of a New Jersey rock group, Joey Dee and the Starliters, performing “The Peppermint Twist” is interrupted censoriously by a sign reading “Please Stand By.”

From Time • Oct. 5, 2012

There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zooey turned around to look at her, somewhat censoriously.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger