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