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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. censoriousadjective

   harshly critical or expressing censure

   "was censorious of petty failings"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Censoriousadjective

   Etymology: from censor.

   1. Addicted to censure; severe; full of invectives.

   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.

   2. Sometimes it has of before the object of reproach.

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

   3. Sometimes on.

   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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. coenurosis

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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. 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.

2. 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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CENSORIOUS
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Censorious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CENSORIOUS
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CENSORIOUS
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=CENSORIOUS