(a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
(a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
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.
Upbraiding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Upbraid
Example Sentences:
(1) It is easier, after all, to upbraid a Chinese writer from afar than to risk public scorn and official disapproval in America by upholding the rights of Bradley Manning .
(2) Twitter user @GreenEpidemic ironically upbraided @JasonZubris for doubting the provenance of the message, pointing out that the sender promised the text was “highly legitimate” .
(3) Michael Gove's complaints about poor writing standards in English classrooms have been put in perspective after a 10-year-old upbraided him for grammatical inconsistencies in this week's spelling, punctuation and grammar tests.
(4) The 10-minute encounter, in which Paxman upbraided the comedian because he "can't be arsed to vote", became an unlikely YouTube hit, with 10 million views – nearly 20 times Newsnight's average audience.
(5) In the past, the US has upbraided both allies and adversaries over the indiscriminate use of aerial strikes.
(6) On Tuesday, Comey upbraided Clinton and her staff with a lengthy and scathing description of what agents had found on her private email servers.
(7) At this point in the story the principal character is upbraided by one of her superiors for having a transcendent experience, but keeping it to herself.
(8) He could have been upbraiding his earlier, over-promising self.
(9) Photograph: Kane Skennar It begins with vampires Viago (Waititi) and Vladislav (Clement) upbraiding their flatmate Deacon (Jonny Brugh) for slovenliness around their shared home.
(10) The latest development has seen a Romney aide furiously upbraiding journalists attending an event with Romney in Poland for wanting to ask questions of the candidate, telling journalists to "Kiss my ass."
(11) Meanwhile, an apparently penitent Mr Clinton made his most emotional appeal so far for the mercy and forgiveness of the American people, upbraiding himself as a sinner and issuing fresh apologies for his record of sex and lies with Ms Lewinsky.
(12) The frustrations of his campaign brains trust spilled over when the party’s pollster Mark Textor upbraided the electoral commission on social media for counting too slowly.
(13) One of the first things he did, establishing beyond doubt that things had changed, was to upbraid the mainstream media.
(14) Only last week he upbraided the comedian and actor, Russell Brand (video) on air for admitting that he has never voted and glibly predicting a revolution ("it is totally going to happen").
(15) I apologise for going on so long about my own ailments – a dreadful case of "anecdotal evidence", for which I am continually upbraided by clinical purists.
(16) In particular, the judge Goolam Meeran upbraided the UN, "the principal agency promoting the observance of human rights norms and practices and respect for the rule of law", for having "condoned such humiliating and degrading treatment of a member of its own staff".
(17) In a letter released on Tuesday night, May upbraided Gove for the Department for Education's handling of allegations regarding Islamists in Birmingham schools for what she called "the inability of local and central government to tackle the problem effectively".
(18) He once wrote: "The robust tabloids flashed the Green Light, were promptly denounced by other newspapers for their gaucherie or vulgarity or lèse majesté, and then were echoed by the very newspapers who had so severely upbraided them for their frankness."
(19) The Khans toured TV studios, explaining that grief had overwhelmed Ghazala when she saw a photo of her son – and then the couple calmly upbraided the Republican nominee’s character.
(20) She is shouted at by family members for being late and not spending enough time with each client, then upbraided by the company because of the complaints it receives.