OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 37308

censorious

/sɛnˈsɔɹiəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
censorino • censorio
Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
But, my dear David, this world is a censorious place—as who should know it better than myself, who have lived ever since the days of my late departed father, God sain him! in a per…
[S]he remembered the Countess of Rotheles's advice, and she well knew the very pointed words and looks Lady Allerton could assume when it suited her humour to be censorious, and wa…