censorious
11censorious — adjective formal always looking for mistakes and faults in other people and wanting to criticize them: She didn t used to be so censorious of others behaviour. censoriously adverb censoriousness noun (U) …
12censorious — adjective the appointment of censorious watchdogs over the broadcasters Syn: hypercritical, overcritical, fault finding, disapproving, condemnatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging, reproachful, reproving, censuring, captious, carping,… …
13censorious writing — index libel Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
14censorious — censoriously, adv. censoriousness, n. /sen sawr ee euhs, sohr /, adj. severely critical; faultfinding; carping. [1530 40; < L censorius of a censor, hence, austere, moral; see CENSOR, TORY1] * * * …
15censorious — adjective a) Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. b) Implying or expressing censure …
16censorious — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, accusatory, back biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, captious, carping, catty, caviling, chiding, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, conscientious,… …
17censorious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. critical, faultfinding, condemnatory. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. carping, faultfinding, complaining; see critical 2 , severe 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inclined to …
18censorious — cen|so|ri|ous [ sen sɔriəs ] adjective FORMAL always wanting to criticize other people or ideas and find faults in them …
19censorious — cen·so·ri·ous || sen sÉ”Ërɪəs adj. critical, fault finding …
20censorious — [sɛn sɔ:rɪəs] adjective severely critical. Derivatives censoriously adverb censoriousness noun Origin C16: from L. censorius (from censor ‘magistrate’) + ious …
