censurious
English
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Adjective
[edit]censurious (comparative more censurious, superlative most censurious)
- Alternative form of censorious
- 1618, Lewis Stukley, “Lewis Stukelye's Apollogie writte with his owne hand”, in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., volume VIII: Miscellaneous works, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1829, page 783:
- I KNOW full well that all actions of men of whatsoeuer condition in these censurious tymes shal be scanned, as alredy I am informed mine haue bine in the execution of my souuerains late commands: euen since yesterday that I parformed the same, committinge sir Walter Rawligh, and some of his adherants and instruments to his intended scape from out of my custody to the Tower.
- 2025 January 4, Brian Doherty, “The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk”, in Reason.com[1]:
- Since taking over Twitter, Musk has regularly boosted, echoed, and embraced thoughts and thinkers commonly classified (often by the practitioners themselves) under the ideological category "neoreaction," which roughly thinks a domineering, censurious machine of progressive thought control has ruined the West with dangerously wrong beliefs in things such as democracy, cosmopolitanism, and equality of the sexes or races.