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Censorious glare: It isn't easy to put the stigma back into illegitimate birth.
White Ghetto? 2008
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Announcing his withdrawal to The Times, Mr Duncan said: Censorious judgmentalism from the moralising wing, which treats half our countrymen as enemies, must be rooted out.
Archive 2005-07-17 Laban 2005
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Announcing his withdrawal to The Times, Mr Duncan said: Censorious judgmentalism from the moralising wing, which treats half our countrymen as enemies, must be rooted out.
Wonderful Laban 2005
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Censorious heirs or purchasers of the copyright might prevent the reprinting of a great work because they disagreed with its morals. 32 We might lose the works of
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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[Sidenote: 4 Pragmaticall.] [Sidenote: 5 Censorious.] [Sidenote: 6 Cruell.]
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Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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Was far more severe on himself than others; easy to forgive, and of an unbyass'd Integrity; not Censorious, but more inclin'd to spare the bold, than the wary Writer; so that it was a frequent Observation with him, that a Slip below was more unpardonable than a Fall above; and that to have no Fault, might be the Greatest.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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The Censorious say, That the Men, whose hearts are aimed at, are very often the Occasions that one Part of the Face is thus dishonoured, and lies under a kind of Disgrace, while the other is so much Set off and Adorned by the Owner; and that the
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The second Kind of Female Orators are those who deal in Invectives, and who are commonly known by the Name of the Censorious.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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The Censorious say, That the Men, whose Hearts are aimed at, are very often the Occasions that one Part of the Face is thus dishonoured, and lies under a kind of Disgrace, while the other is so much Set off and Adorned by the Owner; and that the Patches turn to the
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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