censorious

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Adjective

censorious (comparative more censorious, superlative most censorious)

1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
   • 2013, Holly Baxter, Is masturbating in public a laughing matter? (in The Guardian, 20 September 2013)

     Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was "not of a sexual nature" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.

2. Implying or expressing censure.
   • censorious remarks

References

• censorious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• censorious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• coenurosis