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Definitions for censorious
sɛnˈsɔr i əs, -ˈsoʊr-cen·so·ri·ous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. censoriousadjective

    harshly critical or expressing censure

    "was censorious of petty failings"

Wiktionary

  1. censoriousadjective

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

  2. censoriousadjective

    Implying or expressing censure.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Censoriousadjective

    Etymology: from censor.

    Do not too many believe no religion to be pure, but what is intemperately rigid? no zeal to be spiritual, but what is censorious, or vindicative? Thomas Sprat.

    O! let my presence make my travels light,
    And potent Venus shall exalt my name
    Above the rumours of censorious fame. Matthew Prior.

    A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbours. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

    He treated all his inferiours of the clergy with a most sanctified pride; was rigorously and universally censorious upon all his brethren of the gown. Jonathan Swift.

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  1. censorious

    Censorious refers to someone who is highly critical, often expressing harsh or severe judgments, disapproval or censorship. It can also refer to someone who tends to find fault in others or has a censoring nature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Censoriousadjective

    addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners

  2. Censoriousadjective

    implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of censorious in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of censorious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of censorious in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists.

  2. Jenin Younes:

    California’s new ‘misinformation’ law is the result of an increasingly censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in this country, that this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment.

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