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censorious

/sen-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-/US // sɛnˈsɔr i əs, -ˈsoʊr- //UK // (sɛnˈsɔːrɪəs) //

审查,审查者,审查员,审查的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : severely critical; faultfinding; carping.

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Examples

  • Up until the mid-’80s, it looked like these censorious villains would triumph—and also, like today, most of the adult world hid in their homes in Sherman Oaks instead of fighting back.

  • Additionally, the Court handed a victory to public school student-athletes — and to students generally — who find themselves on the wrong end of overly censorious school administrators.

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

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

  • After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father.

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

  • Yes, and she is a curious being to pretend to be censorious—an awkward thing, without any one good point under the sun.

  • He forgot the delicate and uncertain state of his marital affairs, forgot the censorious world, his ennui and doubt and regret.

  • The Bishop is especially incensed at the censer; and waxes censorious about the wax lights.