censorious
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And then there are “family values,” a whole range of social issues usually related to sexual behavior and typically expressed in censorious, moralizing terms.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
But the censorious effect is the same, even if deployed covertly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Even after her mother’s death in 2020 at 96, that censorious voice remained “embedded in my most primitive responses, in my very limbic system.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
He distorted emails and other exchanges to make them look coercive when they were nothing of the sort, cherry-picking and rearranging quotations to put them in a censorious light.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2024
The Verdun section of Montreal was in no sense a dressy neighborhood, and I was convinced that every passer-by was giving me a second, basically censorious look.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing censorious
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