Censorious \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the
censor. See Censor.]
1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in
making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
[1913 Webster]
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious
of his neighbors. --Watts.
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2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe;
condemnatory; hypercritical. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
censorious
adj : harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of
petty failings"
WordNet (r) 2.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "censorious":
Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, accusatory, back-biting, belittling,
bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, captious,
carping, catty, caviling, chiding, choicy, choosy, condemnatory,
conscientious, contemptuous, contumelious, critic, critical,
damnatory, defamatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative,
deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
derogative, derogatory, detractory, discriminating, discriminative,
disparaging, exacting, execrating, execrative, execratory,
fastidious, faultfinding, hidebound, hypercritical, invective,
inveighing, judgmental, libelous, meticulous, mid-Victorian,
minimizing, narrow, objurgatory, old-maidish, overcritical,
overmodest, particular, pejorative, perfectionistic, picky,
precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, proscriptive, prudish,
punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful,
reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scandalous,
scoffing, scrupulous, scurrile, scurrilous, selective, sensitive,
slanderous, slighting, smug, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict,
stuffy, vilifying, vituperative
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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