censorious

English

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

censorious (comparative more censorious, superlative most censorious)

1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
   • 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, “Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.

2. Implying or expressing censure.

   censorious remarks

Translations

apt to condemn

• Finnish: tuomitseva (fi)
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implying or expressing censure

• Finnish: suut tukkiva, sensuurihenkinen
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• Irish: achasánach

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} guthánach
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References

• “censorious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “censorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• coenurosis