censorious

Example Sentences

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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

We are seeing a censorious instinct bubbling up in politicians alarmed by these developments.

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

In fact, Jesse and many geeks consider themselves liberators of ideas and culture, using the Net to literally pry them from what they see as greedy corporations and powerful, censorious institutions.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz