How To Use Censorious In A Sentence
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Augusta wrinkled her nose at him, at his censorious tone, and let him draw her to join them.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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censorious," meaning faultfinding, is derived from the name of these ancient officials.
Early European History
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Just as Hugh Hefner relied on censorious foes to elevate his stature, Sports Illustrated has cultivated its own opposition to enhance its probity; the magazine is sporting about its own critics.
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Dressing like your Aunt Dahlia DOES NOT mean I am prim, censorious and frigid.
Are SlutWalkers losing their way? | Victoria Coren
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Not only is his play anti-puritanical, but it recognizes without censoriousness the strength of the sexual urge and the intense pleasure it offers.
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The board is certainly less censorious than ever before: so far this year it has considered 150 films and cut just three, plus 2,262 videos, of which it demanded changes in only 95.
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Augusta wrinkled her nose at him, at his censorious tone, and let him draw her to join them.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Charity as she bears the present prejudices, or judges of the future state of men, is called candour, as opposed to censorious judging.
A Charity Sermon. First Delivered in Salisbury, July 28; And Afterwards in Other Places in Rowan, and the Counties Adjoining; Particularly at Sugar's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, at the Opening of the Synod of the Carolinas, October 2: And Last, at t
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Taggart, however, did not seem even mildly censorious, only interested.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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I go upon the sea on these cruises, which you call smuggling, and what not, and of which he speaks censoriously, but if they do not show a large enough profit on his books he rates me most severely, and charges me with a lack of enterprise.
The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign
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Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules?
Gawker
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Garry's was gravely censorious, almost remonstrant.
The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
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Although he insisted that he meant nothing censorious by his remarks, and that he is in favour of Israeli policy being ‘debated freely and civilly’, his words have had a chilling effect on political discourse.
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The decision to recall the journal and suppress this article is about as far from the principle of academic freedom as you can get, and I hope that the censorious little fascists responsible suffer for it.
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Mary, bland and uncensorious, was a perfect chaperon.
The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]
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So people who are concerned about the ongoing pandemic of men's violence against women -- including thousands of domestic violence and sexual assault advocates and educators - are "censorious" if they have a problem with lyrics that normalize and find humor in (fictional) rapists 'misogynist fantasies of brutality and degradation?
Jackson Katz: Eminem, Misogyny, and the Sounds of Silence
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She became pregnant, but in the 1940s the censorious attitudes of society made it impossible for her to keep the child when she was living in an environment where her pregnancy would be known and she would be ostracised.
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Her oncologist was uncensorious, but cautious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the blanket condemnation of Tracey for tapping out 140 characters into a Twitter box - characters that spelled out something critical of another blogger - amounts to a kind of censoriousness that I find a bit discomfiting.
Community Is Hard. Deal With It.
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[154] It is sufficient to read the '' censorious '' texts '' against the rebaptizers '' of the eighteenth century that this issue gave rise to.
Orrologion
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The presentation of straying males is, then, much less censorious.
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My friend Michelle Minton argues that high tech firms trying to do business in censorious China ought to take their ball and go home in principled protest against the Green Dam Youth Escort program.
Only Nextel Could Go to China
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I'd like the Canadian government to step in, quash the bullying, censorious action brought by the Canadian Muslim Congress, shut down the pseudo-legal "human rights" kangaroo courts that exist to enable this sort of injudicial nuisance suit, apologise to Mark Steyn and the magazine which published his article, reprimand the Muslim organisation involved, and ensure that religious pressure groups never again have the power in a civil society to bully writers or publishers into silence with the threat of McCarthyesque quasi-trials invoking the elastic term "human rights".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject.
Tracking the Untrackable
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Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters.
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She fixed her daughter with a censorious eye.
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And God, who understands us well, has appointed them to keep us in a perpetual frame of love; for so ready is our bad nature to kindle with our good, and burn with it, that what we call our piety, is, otherwise, in constant danger of degenerating into a fiery, censorious, unmerciful and intolerant spirit.
Christian Nurture.
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The Church of Scotland's preaching and doctrine emphasised a believer's personal relationship with God, but it was often regarded as being stifling and censorious, and too keen on banning what might divert from the spiritual.
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O'Donnell has no hint of the Moral Majority about him but, though uncensorious, he doesn't idealise or try to act the shrink. '
Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
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The Capital's restaurant is the proud recipient of two Michelin stars, and head chef Eric Chavot's innovative style has been praised by even the most censorious of critics.
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Because the blanket condemnation of Tracey for tapping out 140 characters into a Twitter box – characters that spelled out something critical of another blogger – amounts to a kind of censoriousness that I find a bit discomfiting.
Community Is Hard. Deal With It. | Her Bad Mother
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Its four young film-makers decided in 1996 to produce an ‘underground’ film that broke free of all the rules of film production under the censorious New Order.
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But I do remember the whole censorious tone in which the company's statement was read out - when the BBC could so easily have taken the opportunity to actually educate the kids in this small but quite useful fact of pricing.
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In today's censorious and disapproving cultural climate, however, the authorities are reluctant to leave this ‘problem’ alone.
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And yet it is too visible that many, who make a great profession of piety towards God, are very defective in moral duties; very unpeaceable and turbulent in their spirits, very peevish and passionate, very conceited and censorious, as if their profession of godliness did exempt them from the care and practice of Christian virtues.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
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I like the way the whole thing is skewed towards the safety of our children, so no-one need focus too closely on the actual sinister censorious implications for consenting adults behind this initiative.
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‘Didn't know you smoked,’ he said, allowing his short beard a brief censorious waggle.
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She is intelligent and sincere, and remarkably uncensorious about the social services which seem so damnably to have failed her.
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Atalanta tries to blunt the censorious attitude, telling of her sacrifice, that she has given up so much.
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Finally, Vera, who judges no one, meets the forces of censoriousness.
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You ought not feel that censorious actions in the Indian subcontinent are unregarded.
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It is a great irony that university liberals - who advertise themselves as avatars of open-mindedness - have let themselves become censorious and intolerant in these harsh ways.
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This time, the term "mental defects," in Maxine 's grimly censorious mouth, set me off.
FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
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NEW YORK — Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as “Cabot Wright Begins” and “Eustace Chisholm and the Works” inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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How do you tell someone you're disappointed in them without sounding like a patronising censorious cow?
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Taggart, however, did not seem even mildly censorious, only interested.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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was censorious of petty failings
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There are no statistics to back up this claim, but some say millennials are oversensitive, hyper-censorious snowflakes who aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy about something.
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This tactic may indicate the weakness of the arguments put forward by Lomborg's critics, but in today's censorious climate it can be effectively used to silence any real debate.
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His iron public spirit, his inevitable devotion to duty, unconscious and instinctive and uncensorious, combined with a guilty sense that her youth and beauty had been uprooted by him, and put into a dusty distant soil.
Balloons
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said UCSD's reading of the USA Patriot act was laughably censorious.
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For that business man down in the sharp competition of the world where duty calls him, to resist the sly temptations to overreach, to keep keenly alert not to be overreached; and through all to preserve an uncensorious spirit, unhurt by the selfishness of the crowd -- tell me, some of you men -- _will that not take power_?
Quiet Talks on Power
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In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
Bleak House
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Protected by America, its economy guaranteed by Wasabi oil, its religious authorities fat, happy, and uncensorious, Matar was the Switzerland of the Gulf.
Florence of Arabia (Part II)
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
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Except that several comments did in fact bring up campus speech codes, the Harvard email controversy and other such side issues as examples of “the left” and its censorious impulses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
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Last week, the Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson warned a House of Lords committee that the government risked creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech ....
Eye on Britain
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They first unsettle our obedience by discovering what they call the iniquity of our governors; and indeed it is not difficult for those who look with a malignant eye on their conduct to perceive such errors, or, if you will, vices, as an artful and censorious temper may dress up into glaring enormities, especially if it deals in those exaggerations which people, who give up their understandings to the views of a party, call true representations.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
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Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil.
A History of American Christianity
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If inclined to the characteristic excesses of the period (hard drinking, gambling, promiscuity), his view of the world depicted its manners, vices, politics, and incidents, but without censoriousness.
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But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
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It is they who are the true snobs, they the elitists, they the censorious kakistocracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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And exposing himself to that censorious and supercilious gaze?
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Indeed it does, and you don't have to be an anarchist to smile wickedly as Coward's characters poke bruising fun at all the censorious prigs, both moral and political, who talk a better game than they play.
When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
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I had to put my views into print to be scanned by thousands of educated people, including a number of hawk-eyed and censorious experts.
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Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel.
Orrologion
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But (one could imagine the censorious New Politics leader) did they ever give a thought to anything else?
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals?
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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The opposite extreme to that of censoriousness is here condemned -- want of discrimination of character.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Some 80 years later, Sheridan cleaned it up in a version called A Trip to Scarborough to suit a more censorious climate but happily retained ‘stap my vitals’ while adding one or two coinages of his own.
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With colleagues he was “tolerant (and) uncensorious” (Warnock, xiv), but in philosophical debate he could turn into a formidable opponent, expressing an intense dislike of pomposity, pretence and jargon (Urmson, 271; Gallop, 228).
Gilbert Ryle
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Once Homo censorious draws blood, his appetite becomes insatiable.
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He has paid a terrible price for conduct that I am not sufficiently censorious to classify as wrong, bad or wicked.
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They were as puritanical, censorious, and hypocritical as any priest-ridden Third Worlders could be, and in private -- because Buddy said he knew their most intimate thoughts -- every last one of them was racist.
Beard
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The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Despite strong principles he was never censorious.
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censoriousness," of perpetual nagging, and fault-finding developed to such a pitch that it has eaten out at last the fair heart of human forbearance and kindness which is the birthright of everyone.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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All who protest at such matters are labelled ‘homophobic’ and mocked as narrow-minded, bigoted and censorious.
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Even so censorious a critic as Ruskin saw them as useful in an age hungry for popular information.
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In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
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She had a primly censorious mouth above a slightly receding chin already showing the first slackness of a dewlap.
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As a group they are keen to move away from the moral censoriousness and free market zealotry which are typical of older Tories.
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Paradoxically the users of social media are increasingly censorious, blocking this and no-platforming that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both sides were equally censuring and censorious in their own ways.
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The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Addressing the House of Lords on Tuesday, the Mr Bean star said Britain was creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech.
Undefined
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That the ‘new openness’ is driven more by official doubt than by a clamour for liberation is clear from the fact that the BBFC remains petty and censorious - but only on what it considers to be safer ground.
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But (one could imagine the censorious New Politics leader) did they ever give a thought to anything else?
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Otherwise, on whose authority do those censorious correspondents write who continually fret and complain because a dynamic world language cannot be constrained within the dilapidated palisade of their rusty rules?
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The Blackadder actor, addressing a meeting of Lords on Tuesday, warned of creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech.
Joe. My. God.
