Censorious

Quick meaning: Censorious is an adjective meaning Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

Meaning

Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

More Meanings

1. Implying or expressing censure.
2. (proscribed) Tending to engage in or support censorship.

Example Sentences

censorious remarks

Is there something in the California water that makes Silicon Valley's censorious dweebs so damned shameless?

But, my dear David, this world is a censorious place—as who should know it better than myself, who have lived ever since the days of my late departed father, God sain him! in a perfect spate of calumnies?

Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; […]

Synonyms for censorious

Depending on context, synonyms include condemnatory, overcritical, condemning, disapprobatory, disapproving, damnatory.

Antonyms for censorious

Common opposites include noncensorious, uncensorious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include critical, damning, condemnatory, censurious, castigatory, condemned.

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