Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a censorious manner.

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  • adverb In a censorious manner.

Etymologies

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censorious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Ned eyed Jamie censoriously over his half-spectacles.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • But before I could remonstrate, or swipe her head off, she was writhing and plunging away again, moaning with her eyes half-closed, and this time, for a wonder, the thing went on uninterrupted until we were lying gasping and exhausted, in each other's arms - and the kitten was there again, purring censoriously in my ear.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Several people around us looked at me censoriously.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • A host of exciting, thought-provoking explorations are reduced to a petty list of rules, censoriously enforced.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Not long ago my small son burst into tears when his older sister told him censoriously that it is men who do all the bad things in the world; men start all the wars and little boys love pretending to shoot and hurt people.

    [cry rape] sorting out the truth from the lies 2009

  • Not long ago my small son burst into tears when his older sister told him censoriously that it is men who do all the bad things in the world; men start all the wars and little boys love pretending to shoot and hurt people.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • He rightly sees the respects in which all of Keats's friends on occasion propose something that is self-serving, an epithet that comes several times but not censoriously and not self-exculpatorily (for Plumly's enterprise, too, has a self to serve).

    Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009

  • But what I do know is that for as long as I can remember left liberals have entirely rejected that view and sneered censoriously at anyone bold enough to have doubts about universal human rights; they have used the phrases “human rights” and “universal human rights” as knock-down arguments — as if just to mention the words was itself proof of their validity.

    September 04, 2005 Laban 2005

  • But what I do know is that for as long as I can remember left liberals have entirely rejected that view and sneered censoriously at anyone bold enough to have doubts about universal human rights; they have used the phrases “human rights” and “universal human rights” as knock-down arguments — as if just to mention the words was itself proof of their validity.

    Archive 2005-09-04 Laban 2005

  • “I see that you have recovered your spirits, Miss Blount,” he said censoriously, sorry that the subdued Teresa of yesterday was gone.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

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