Definitions for censorious

censorious cen·so·ri·ous

Spelling: [sen-sawr-ee-uh s, -sohr-]
IPA: /sɛnˈsɔr i əs, -ˈsoʊr-/

Censorious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 533 anagrams from letters in censorious (ceinoorssu).

Definitions for censorious

adjective

  1. severely critical; faultfinding; carping.

Origin of censorious

1530-40; Latin cēnsōrius of a censor, hence, austere, moral; see censor, -tory1

Examples for censorious

"We live in a censorious world, Citoyenne," he answered gravely.

But amid all the censorious protests against “self-censorship” an important legal principle has been ignored.

Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age.

They judged him by a censorious standard which took no account of genius.

No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious.

Prescott was not a censorious person, and he had a liking and some pity for the man.

It was a mad world—a world in which it was not safe to be censorious.

Mrs. Grundy, the representative of the censorious world, What will Mrs. Grundy say?

"It's a hard, censorious world, this," answered the elder man.

Socrates asks what manner of man was this censorious critic.

Word Value for censorious
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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