We can become censorious, looking for faults in everyone else that doesn't look or sound like us. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Was censorious of petty failings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules?. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
"censorious," meaning faultfinding, is derived from the name of these ancient officials. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Thou dear censorious country girl! what dost mean?. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Moreover, the Lavender Lady had never been censorious. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
You're letting the devil in again and getting censorious!. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
In this vain attempt dread the reproof of the censorious!. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
People in the country are so apt to be censorious, aren't they?. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
They have been so censorious -- and Lady Teazle as bad as any one. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Parliament, had been so courteous, would have been so abruptly censorious. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Horace must not be thought of, however, as a censorious or carping critic. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
"ELISHA'S" orthography to a second test by a crucial and censorious public. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference
He avoided censorious writing, and most of the people he mentions are praised. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
He hit the national scene in the 1950s as a prosecutorial type, rigid and censorious. From Wordnik.com. [What If Rfk Had Survived?] Reference
This is so for two reasons: It is not in their interest for government to wax censorious. From Wordnik.com. [Prohibition Ii: Good Grief] Reference
The Bishop is especially incensed at the censer; and waxes censorious about the wax lights. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870] Reference
"The Colwyns must be having a party," said a rather censorious neighbor, who was sitting with. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
They are often represented as having been stern, censorious, and uncharitable in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
For long years I saw in my grandfather only a coarse, violent old man, niggardly and censorious. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Perhaps if I had had some experience of a batch of them, I should be more censorious of other people. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
As we have seen, instead of softening his selfish nature, it rendered him more morose and censorious. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
But at the risk of being thought a censorious Saxon I must confess that I am quite at issue with Western. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
All our authorities agree in describing her as one of the most considerate and least censorious of mortals. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Beyond the usual censorious stuff, it also prohibited any authority figure from ever being shown as pernicious. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Miller Strikes Again] Reference
The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa, where newspapers had a field day. From Wordnik.com. [South African journalists condemn efforts to silence them] Reference
Congressional Republicans were always ready to forgive Freeh because he seemed so morally censorious of the Clinton White House. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Justice] Reference
That would be a repulsive example of censorious behaviour in any era; at a time when amateur content is rampant, it's unfathomable. From Wordnik.com. [Why, after all, I can't resist the iPad] Reference
Unless carefully repressed, such a spirit becomes censorious, or, worse still, spiteful, and has often been the means of losing a friend. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
When the novelist is as deadly serious, often censorious, and stylistically capable a critic as James Wood, the divide becomes even blurrier. From Wordnik.com. [Epilogue] Reference
First Amendment hard-liners say it is too censorious; Christian-values groups complain that it doesn't sufficiently emphasize the Net's perils. From Wordnik.com. [Net Summit] Reference
Baltimore's Florence Crittenton Mission used to shelter unwed mothers from the censorious glare of polite society while they carried their babies to term. From Wordnik.com. [White Ghetto?] Reference
He wrote the last work to censure all the former emperors, that he might appear the only great prince: for a censorious turn is an effect of vanity and pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
She was impressively presidential in her studious, almost censorious, way — carefully attired in deep red, her tone competent, severe and ready to take on all comers. From Wordnik.com. [Potomac High] Reference
Why, the BBC Trust, more systemically censorious supplanter of the old board of governors – which nevertheless retains the right to criticise or even fire the man they hired. From Wordnik.com. [Big Brother may be off-air but he has got his beady eyes on BBC trustees] Reference
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