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Censorious   Listen
adjective
Censorious  adj.  
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."
2.
Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Synonyms: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical.





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"Censorious" Quotes from Famous Books



... whose warm sympathies went out to an artist whose talents she admired. Malibran, living apart from her husband, was obliged to be careful in her conduct, to avoid giving food for the scandal of a censorious world, but this did not prevent her from exhibiting the utmost pity and kindness in her demeanor toward De Beriot. The violinist was soothed by this gentle and delightful companion, and it was not long before a fresh affection, even stronger than the other, sprang up in his susceptible ...
— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris
... was dancing with the thought of the prospect of a rival vital institution in connection with which her views and her talents would in all probability be consulted and allowed to exercise themselves. Her's, and not Mrs. Taylor's, or any of that censorious and restricting set. In that hospital, at least, ambition and originality would be allowed to show what they could do unfettered by envy or paralyzed by conservatism. "But I can't think of anything now, Mr. Parsons, except the grand secret you have confided to me. A hospital! It is an ideal ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... I like Mr. Hays. He is not censorious. He does not denounce sin so continually that he has no time to tell of forgiveness; he does not keep us so constantly trembling over the past that we have not the courage to hope for better things in the future; ...
— The Old Stone House • Anne March
... censorious, gossiping, novel-reading life that flourishes in this hothouse existence, the seeds of lifelong misery are not ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... use or need for what she had done disappeared as she saw this wreck of the man whom she loved—whom she believed to be innocent of offense and persecuted by an evil fate. What might have become of him if he had been left to crawl out of his prison into the cold and censorious world, without a friend, a hope, or an interest in life? What lowest depth of despair might he not have touched if in such a plight as this he should be found and tortured anew by his old enemy, whose cruelty was evidently not assuaged by the sufferings she had heaped upon ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant


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