judgmental

[juhj-men-tl]

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adjective

involving the use or exercise of judgment.
tending to make moral judgments: to avoid a judgmental approach in dealing with divorced couples.

Also especially British, judge·men·tal.

Origin of judgmental

First recorded in 1905–10; judgment + -al¹

Related formsjudg·men·tal·ly, adverbun·judg·men·tal, adjective

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Examples from the Web for judgmental

Contemporary Examples

Please know that these judgmental feelings truly have no pace in my heart.
GOP Flack Throws Shade at First Teens
Olivia Nuzzi
November 29, 2014
What he meant was that he personally, and by extension all Christians, should not be judgmental.
Is Pope Francis Backpedaling on Gays?
Jay Michaelson
November 19, 2014
Anyone turning to country music for life lessons or values had better be content with the advice to simply not be so judgmental!
Is This Country Star the New Wendy Davis?
Matt Lewis
November 8, 2014
This is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.
Mommy’s Little Secret? Coffee And Booze.
Sally Kohn
May 11, 2014
She does not, in this journal, exhibit the same sort of judgmental self-satisfaction that her female protagonists suffer from.
Flannery O’Connor’s Desire for God
Jen Vafidis
November 13, 2013

Historical Examples

Are you inclined to be moralistic, dogmatic, critical, or judgmental?
When You Don't Know Where to Turn
Steven J. Bartlett
Here is a trying ordeal, a judgmental shaking of the church parallel with that described in Hebrews.
Birth of a Reformation
Andrew Byers

British Dictionary definitions for judgmental

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judgemental

adjective

of or denoting an attitude in which judgments about other people's conduct are made

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Word Origin and History for judgmental

adj.

1892, from judgment + -al (1). Meaning "inclined to make moral judgments" is attested from 1952. Related: Judgmentally.

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Examples from the Web for judgmental

Contemporary Examples

Please know that these judgmental feelings truly have no pace in my heart.

What he meant was that he personally, and by extension all Christians, should not be judgmental.

Anyone turning to country music for life lessons or values had better be content with the advice to simply not be so judgmental!

This is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.

She does not, in this journal, exhibit the same sort of judgmental self-satisfaction that her female protagonists suffer from.

Historical Examples

Are you inclined to be moralistic, dogmatic, critical, or judgmental?

Here is a trying ordeal, a judgmental shaking of the church parallel with that described in Hebrews.

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Word Origin and History for judgmental

adj.

Origin of judgmental