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Censorious   Listen
adjective
Censorious  adj.  
1.
Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. "A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors."
2.
Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Synonyms: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical.





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"Censorious" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a little time to realise all this? I feel that everything I have and am ought to be yours at this moment, because you have made me so happy, because my heart is so full of gratitude. But, alas, I have my weaknesses! I am a very proud woman. Sometimes I am afraid I have been a little censorious—as regards others!" ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... and younger brothers, because the older brother rose to the leadership from the day the father laid down to die. Whatever you do for your brother will come back to you again. If you set him an ill-natured, censorious, unaccommodating example, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated and despoiled nature. If you, by patience with all his infirmities and by nobility of character, dwell with him in the few years of your companionship, you will have your counsels ...
— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage
... is an irritable, petulant, arrogant man, not without a certain ability in debate, but censorious, and unconfined by the restraints of decency in his tirades against the North. He was 'one of the finest-looking men,' if we speak phrenologically, in the last Senate; and would always be noticed for his dignified manner and fine head, by a stranger visiting ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... sternly what the war was about if it was not to vindicate the principle that the people of a State alone should have power of taxation over themselves. Of New England all the other States were jealous and they particularly disliked that proud and censorious city which already was accused of believing that God had made Boston for Himself and all the rest of the world for Boston. The religion of New England did not suit the Anglicans of Virginia or the Roman Catholics of Maryland, and there ...
— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong
... herself up on the sled in a miserable little bunch, and Matilda dragged her. Her very back looked censorious to Comfort, ...
— Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


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