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Censorious Definition And Meaning
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 \Censo"rious\, 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. -- {Censo"riously}, adv. -- {Censo"riousness}, n.

Censorious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Censorious?

[adj] harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Censorious: critical

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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