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UK
/sɛnsˈɔːɹɪəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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harshly critical or expressing censure
was censorious of petty failings
How To Use censorious In A Sentence
- Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. Orrologion
- In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
- I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
- But (one could imagine the censorious New Politics leader) did they ever give a thought to anything else? LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
- I had to put my views into print to be scanned by thousands of educated people, including a number of hawk-eyed and censorious experts.
- Indeed it does, and you don't have to be an anarchist to smile wickedly as Coward's characters poke bruising fun at all the censorious prigs, both moral and political, who talk a better game than they play. When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
- And exposing himself to that censorious and supercilious gaze?
- It is they who are the true snobs, they the elitists, they the censorious kakistocracy. Times, Sunday Times
- But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
- If inclined to the characteristic excesses of the period (hard drinking, gambling, promiscuity), his view of the world depicted its manners, vices, politics, and incidents, but without censoriousness.