Definition of Censorious

1. Adjective. Harshly critical or expressing censure. "Was censorious of petty failings"

Similar to: Critical
Derivative terms: Censor

Definition of Censorious

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

Definition of Censorious

1. Adjective. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. ¹

2. Adjective. Implying or expressing censure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Censorious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Censorious

cense
censed
censer
censers
censes
censing
censitary
censor
censor morum
censorable
censored
censorial
censorian
censoring
censorings
censorious
censoriously
censoriousness
censorless
censors
censorship
censorships
censorware
censour
censours
censual
censurability
censurable
censurableness
censurably

Literary usage of Censorious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"Satire on Censorious Old Maids. AJ, April 6.—Sir, I sent you a Letter a few Days ago concerning a New ..."

2. Proverbs for the People: Or, Illustrations of Practical Godliness Drawn from by Elias Lyman Magoon (1849)
"CAPTIOUSNESS; OR, THE Censorious HAN. • "GRIEVOUS words stir up anger," Prov. 15:1. ... In the first place, the censorious man is prompt to complain. ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"13 I 354, viz., "a censorious or ridiculing writing, picture, or sign, ... But unless the ! word "censorious" is given a much broader signification than ..."

4. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1917)
"Congress reassembled in a peevish and censorious mood, as might well be imagined, yet fully determined that the war into which we had been plunged ..."

5. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"... delicious bane; Censorious folly, noisy party rage, The thousand tongues with which she must engage Who dares have virtue in a vicious age. ..."

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