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censorious

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10 lettersPronunciation /sɛnˈsɔɹiəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceinoorssuStarts with CEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. harshly critical or expressing censure

Word origin

From Latin cēnsōrius (“of or pertaining to a censor; severe”). In sense 3 ("tending to engage in or support censorship"), reanalyzed as censor + -ious.

Used in a sentence

  • But, my dear David, this world is a censorious place—as who should know it better than myself, who have lived ever since the days of my late departed father, God sain him! in a perfect spate of calumnies?
  • censorious remarks
  • Is there something in the California water that makes Silicon Valley's censorious dweebs so damned shameless?

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