censorious

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Whoever is down voting is a coward, or a censorious douchebag.

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harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

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adjective

harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for censorious.

adjective

harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

Example sentences

Whoever is down voting is a coward, or a censorious douchebag.

As others have said - this isn't being censorious or moralistic about drugs - but step 1 is stop smoking the pot.

Thank you for standing up and telling it like it is. We need more voices like this to offset the censorious, intimidating ones on the other side.

So you you work at a company so censorious and distrustful that it expends labor and money to make sure you don't view any content with the dreaded F-word in it.

Who doesn't want to be free?There is a group of people who don't cherish those values, and those are the leaders of national governments that are known to be oppressive, censorious, or both.

"Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others' shortcomings.

Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others shortcomings.

I think the censorious nature of this site is employed to keep hidden its intolerance... so I might get the ban for that... but you never know because there is no warning, you just suddenly get the ax. My last account's karma was about 1,200 acquired over 6 months of contributions.

This particular article is at odds with itself, because it complains that the moderators are censorious and overbearing, and also that WP can't police itself.

One can condemn the idea of software patents generally without necessarily passing censorious judgments about the actors who need to deal with the law as they find it.

As the internet is pretty much constantly under attack by voyeuristic and censorious governments, civil rights are a matter of close interest to hackers.

However, since I never proposed censorship, that means most of them are arguing against the evil, censorious Congressman in their own heads, rather than against anything I actually said.

And we have people who are ostensibly in favor of free speech inviting this censorious, political-establishment-subservient agency into Internet regulation.

Satire usually implies the use of irony or sarcasm for censorious or critical purposes and is often directed at public figures or institutions, conventional behavior, political situations, etc.