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censuring
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Example Sentences
If he gave a speech criticizing rich “plutocrats,” he qualified it by censuring the “mob” as well.
Censuring Cuban is the surest way to breed the Donald Sterlings of tomorrow.
How many would have been clamorous and peevish, hasty in censuring their mistress, and forward in vindicating themselves!
The critic, in censuring poor Dido and her sister, totally forgets their very reasonable ground of provocation.
His life is spent in idleness, merely observing the sayings and doings of the gods, and then censuring and deriding them.
Hume, though we have found him censuring the conduct of Franklin, was opposed to any attempt to coerce America.
But let us examin whether the practice I am censuring is general or not; for if not, it cannot come within Horace's rule.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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