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If there have been outraged essays defending women’s agency or accusing Gilbert of censoriousness, I haven’t seen them, and they are buried deep in numerous Google and social media searches.

From Slate • May 12, 2025

Pullman says he doesn’t mind being banned — it’s good for sales — but worries there is a growing censoriousness in modern culture that tells authors they should only “write about things that you know.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

In a country still adjusting from the cultural isolation and censoriousness of the dictatorship, television was a precious resource, and Televisión Española was the only game in town.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

“The censoriousness of our time is growing,” LaRue warns.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018

Martineau, in his scale of the springs of action, rightly ranks censoriousness, with vindictiveness and suspiciousness, at the very bottom of the list.

From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt