censurer

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When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the candid peer, in imitation of the poets of the days of Louis XIV and Charles II continued to be the censurer and eulogist of himself.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

"I have observed," said I, "that the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it."

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

Dennis was not his only censurer: the zealous papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt, and Erasmus too studiously praised; but to these objections he had not much regard.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Let not the reader, from these remarks, suppose that their author is a morose censurer of the times; or that the least sneer is intended against that idol of all orthodoxy "things as they are."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various