(a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
(a.) Full of censure; censorious.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a friend since Cambridge, agrees with Stoppard that despite sometimes sounding "over censorious, he is actually incredibly warm hearted and very forgiving.
(2) There may be subject matter that I think is in breach of our guidelines and it would be up for me to discuss it with him and grade how censorious you are and how clear you are and what sanction you take.
(3) The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa , where newspapers had a field day.
(4) Instead of erupting upwards in ways which surprise, delight and occasionally shock, it travels censoriously and prescriptively down the pyramid.
(5) In our weirdly censorious era, there are too many demands for people to be sacked or forced to resign, too many campaigns and petitions for people with unfashionable views to have their visas cancelled.
(6) Indeed it seems almost to invite the studied censoriousness of the 19th centrury with women again stigmatised as a source of degradation and disease.
(7) Sony’s latest censorious move arrived on Monday, when Vice reported that the studio’s high-priced lawyer David Boies ( of Bush v Gore and anti-Prop 8 fame ) sent a threatening letter to Twitter warning it to delete a specific Twitter account that was tweeting TMZ-friendly emails about Brad Pitt and others found in the “Guardians of Peace” data.
(8) He argued that Google’s decision over what to index should be seen as “editorial judgement”, the same as a newspaper’s decision about what goes on its front page, and that the state interfering in that decision is censorious.
(9) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(10) I remember during the last administration, you were critical and censorious of it.
(11) The result is arguably a more censorious environment, one in which your movements and behaviour are more strictly policed, officially and unofficially.
(12) Merkel was doubtless not so indelicate or censorious as to consult her watch, a simple crossing of the arms would suffice.
(13) I noted this censoriously 40 years ago, when homophobia was more common than it is now, and it seems even more offensive today.
(14) Just as we have got to grips with the dominant “male gaze” that subjects and contorts the female form, we must now contend with the “machine gaze” – more censorious than an overprotective dad and as relentless as the Terminator.
(15) Moyles and, more recently, Jonathan Ross have both criticised the censorious atmosphere that prevails at the BBC in the aftermath of the "Sachsgate" affair – Ross said he couldn't wait to leave.
(16) In his later essay on Gissing, Orwell describes the quintessential flavour of Gissing's world - "the grime, the stupidity, the ugliness, the sex-starvation, the furtive debauchery, the vulgarity, the bad manners, the censoriousness" - which sums up the world Orwell sought to capture and to criticise in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
(17) I thought he was quite censorious of David Cameron in a very calm, collected and quiet way,” she said.
(18) He criticised the use of injunctions and their more censorious successors, "super-injunctions", which prevent media organisations from reporting the fact they even exist.
(19) Over music provided by Ontario progressive rockers Christmas, a series of crudely drawn information films pictured stereotyped Tom of Finland-type lumberjacks about to get down to business in Rocky Mountain log cabins, only to find the Aids Ptarmigan fluttering around their heads advising them to act responsibly, squawking his catchphrase: “We see thee rise!” Needless to say, Chilliwack the Aids Ptarmigan swiftly became the butt of a thousand Canadian standup comedy routines and his short-lived, sex-fearing reign of gay terror has been largely erased from cyberspace by censorious and retrospectively ashamed Canadian public health bodies.
(20) The app is illustrated with the current cover, a cartoon of the prophet Muhammed, in a change from the norm for Apple’s notoriously censorious App Store which has previous banned satirical and controversial apps.
Quarrelsome
Definition:
(a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Example Sentences:
(1) She takes him to see a venerated copy in an art gallery, but their prickly, quarrelsome relationship takes a strange turn when he is mistaken by a cafe owner for Binoche's husband.
(2) "Late" like the autumnal, musical Eliot of Four Quartets; like the demanding, crepuscular Beethoven quartet the film's characters rehearse for their silver-anniversary performance (String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor – menacingly referred to as "Op 131"); and "late" in the connected senses of former or dead, which this quarrelsome foursome soon might be if they fail to recover their harmony.
(3) An equally quarrelsome perfectionist, only with breasts and less body hair?
(4) Quarrelsome behaviour was studied in 48 patients with a litigious-paranoid personality first developing in old age.
(5) Watching Agua in Athens, I am surprised by the fact that, while it is full of recognisable Bausch motifs (dancers lining up for a swaggering, quarrelsome beauty parade, or engaged in a quest for affection) some of it proves impossible to follow because so much of the text is spoken in Greek.
(6) The author describes the results of clinico-psychopathological study of 68 patients with neurotic states (hysterical, anxiety-phobic) and a psychopath-like syndrome (affective-explosive, hystero-hypochondriac and litigious-quarrelsome) observed long after occupational craniocerebral traumas.
(7) Manipulation tactics covaried significantly across self-based and observer-based data sources with personality scales of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Ambitious-Lazy, Arrogant-Unassuming, Quarrelsome-Agreeable, and Calculating and with characteristics of subjects' social environments.
(8) A quarrelsome, drinking, childhood home background was often found, at least as regards the attempters, who themselves frequently suffered from emotional conflicts with close contacts, alcohol affliction, criminality, and instability at work.
(9) Symptoms like quarrelsomeness, disobedience, abusive language, stealing, truancy, pica, school refusal, enuresis, mental subnormality and poor scholastic performance were significantly more in the LSE group.
(10) This is not a little light volunteering in the library – this is heavy-duty hard grind, often quarrelsome, and the people who made it work really are local heroes, whose own lives were changed.
(11) I suggest, first, that twice every month the Composer of the Week should be a living person; and, second, that every day some dissenting and quarrelsome voices should be heard (for instance, dismissing Beethoven as boring or Benjamin Britten as shallow).
(12) The origin of stomatalgias in psychopathic personalities was accompanied by its decompensation, leading not infrequently to the development of the litigious and quarrelsome personality.
(13) The best leaders promote participation and involvement as their core strategy; promote appropriate staff autonomy and accountability for improvement; ensure staff "voices" are encouraged; encourage staff to be proactive and innovative; avoid command and control except in crisis; take action to address systems problems and unnecessary tasks that prevent staff from delivering high quality care; deal effectively and quickly with quarrelsome, rude and disruptive behaviour and poor performance, especially (but not exclusively) among senior staff; and, above all, they model compassion in dealing with patients and staff.
(14) In some old patients with a psychogenic quarrelsome paranoiac symptom complex the latter develops by the mechanism of psychic induction.
(15) He had always been quarrelsome: now he was soon at odds with those deputies who had been elected in his name.
(16) Young Independent Group members were the angries of the art world, the gang was described by one member as "small, cohesive, quarrelsome, abusive".