censorious
English
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Adjective
censorious (comparative more censorious, superlative most censorious)
- Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
- 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, “Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?”, in The Guardian:
- But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.
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- Implying or expressing censure.
- censorious remarks
Translations
apt to condemn
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implying or expressing censure
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References
- censorious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- censorious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- coenurosis