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单词 censorious
释义

censorious

/sɛnˈsɔːrɪəs /
adjective
Severely critical of others: censorious champions of morality...
  • In today's censorious and disapproving cultural climate, however, the authorities are reluctant to leave this ‘problem’ alone.
  • The Capital's restaurant is the proud recipient of two Michelin stars, and head chef Eric Chavot's innovative style has been praised by even the most censorious of critics.
  • Both sides were equally censuring and censorious in their own ways.

Synonyms

hypercritical, overcritical, severely critical, disapproving, condemnatory, condemning, castigatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging, unforgiving, reproachful, reproving, censuring, captious, fault-finding, carping, cavilling, full of reproof, vituperative;
Scottish & Irish pass-remarkable

Derivatives

censoriously

adverb ...
  • Twenty years later, when his brief essay was collected, he asked the editor to note that he now viewed Kipling ‘less censoriously and with more affectionate admiration.’
  • Many reject nonfiction prose (biographies, autobiographies, documentaries, etc.) censoriously on the grounds that the works are legendary, mythical and/or apocryphal.
  • ‘Advertisers, don't be ignorant,’ he warns censoriously.

censoriousness

/sɛnˈsɔːrɪəsnəs / noun ...
  • Not only is his play anti-puritanical, but it recognizes without censoriousness the strength of the sexual urge and the intense pleasure it offers.
  • In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
  • Finally, Vera, who judges no one, meets the forces of censoriousness.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin censorius (from censor ‘magistrate ’) + -ious.

Rhymes

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