censorious

Speech parts

1. censorious - Adjective

2. censorious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

severe captious hypercritical condemnatory carping caviling fault-finding stern pedant critical negative strict critic harsh abusive
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Antonyms

gabby flowery accept accommodate advocate prolonged
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Phrases with the word

censorious meddling

Anagrams

coenurosis

Examples

She had in all her life never stopped talking long enough to given anyone time to approach her with any proposition regarding sexual irregularity; and the general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted was present in her in a specially rank form. Rebecca West

He was less afraid of gentlemen than of most other kinds of men; for instinct told him that, however detestable a gentleman's personal character might be, he was usually not inclined to be censorious or even inquisitive about the conduct of his fellow-creatures. Edmund Clerihew Bentley

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. Ambrose Bierce

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive. Elias Lyman Magoon

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious. Nick Clegg

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. Ambrose Bierce

Close letter words and terms

censorial censorian censoring censorious meddling censoriously censoriousness