Censorious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              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. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ly}, adv.
          -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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