censoriousness

cen·so·ri·ous (s

n-sôr

s, -s

adj.

1. Tending to censure; highly critical.

2. Expressing censure.

[Latin cnsrius, of a censor, from cnsor, Roman censor; see censor.]

cen·sori·ous·ly adv.

cen·sori·ous·ness n.

censorious [sɛnˈsɔːrɪəs]

adj

harshly critical; fault-finding

censoriously adv

censoriousness n

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Adj.

censorious - harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

critical - marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

censorious

adjective critical, severe, carping, disapproving, scathing, disparaging, judgmental, cavilling, condemnatory, fault-finding, captious He is too judgmental and censorious for my liking.

Translations

censorious [senˈsɔːrɪəs] ADJ (frm) → hipercrítico

censorious [sɛnˈsɔːrɪəs] adj (formal) (= critical) → sévère

censorious

adj remark, glance → strafend; he was very censorious of the new policy → er kritisierte die neue Politik scharf

censorious [ˌsɛnˈsɔːrɪəs] adj → critico/a

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animadversion
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censor
condemnatory
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criticism
disapproving
hypercritical
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judgmental
kept
obloquy
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self-abuse
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There is neither pleading here, nor any censoriousness.

Micrographia by Blum, Christopher O. / Modern Age

as a matter of social comfort, I like much better a little meaningless courtesy, than an excess of that Anglo-Saxon bluntness, which quite as often proceeds from arrogance and censoriousness, as from a love of truth.

"The marriage of choice and the marriage of convenance": a new ... by Lowenthal, David / Journal of Social History

The people of Camden were churchgoing," Reid recalls, "but their attitude toward religion might be described as an easy familiarity in contrast to the strict censoriousness of New England.

Conservatism's First Family by McCarthy, Daniel / The American Conservative

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