Censorious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tending to censure; highly critical.
  • adj. Expressing censure.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  • adj. Implying or expressing censure.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  • adj. Implying or expressing censure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in commenting on others or on their actions, manners, writings, etc.; captious; carping: as, a censorious critic.
  • Implying or expressing censure: as, censorious remarks.
  • Synonyms Hypercritical, faultfinding, carping, captious.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. harshly critical or expressing censure
    • Equivalent
    critical   
    Antonym
    approving    praising   
    Cross Reference
    fault-finding   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    caviling    hypercritical    captious    fault-finding    severe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acrimonious    unfriendly    peevish    splenetic    envious   
     
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