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Censorious
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What's The Definition Of Censorious?
[adj] harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Censorious: critical Related Terms | Find terms related to Censorious: abusive | accusatory | back-biting | belittling | bitchy | blackening | blameful | calumniatory | calumnious | captious | carping | catty | caviling | chiding | choicy | choosy | condemnatory | conscientious | contemptuous | contumelious | critic | critical | damnatory | defamatory | demure | denunciatory | deprecative | deprecatory | depreciative | depreciatory | derisive | derisory | derogative | derogatory | detractory | discriminating | discriminative | disparaging | exacting | execrating | execrative | execratory | fastidious | faultfinding | hidebound | hypercritical | invective | inveighing | judgmental | libelous | meticulous | mid-Victorian | minimizing | narrow | objurgatory | old-maidish | overcritical | overmodest | particular | pejorative | perfectionistic | picky | precise | precisianistic | priggish | prim | proscriptive | prudish | punctilious | puristic | puritanic | puritanical | Quakerish | reproachful | reprobative | reviling | ridiculing | sanctimonious | scandalous | scoffing | scrupulous | scurrile | scurrilous | selective | sensitive | slanderous | slighting | smug | stiff-necked | straitlaced | strict | stuffy | Victorian | vilifying | vituperative See Also | Censorious In Webster's Dictionary \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the
censor. See {Censor}.]
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. --Watts.
2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe;
condemnatory; hypercritical. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ly}, adv.
-- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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