CENSORIOUS in a Sentence

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1. They were born old, grim and old and spying and censorious.
2. And what fun to eat all you wanted without having censorious people say you weren't ladylike.
3. But it is childish to waste our time in censorious judgment on the individual who does no worse than represent a ruling type.

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 Meanings and Examples of CENSORIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
censorious
 a.  critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure
Classic Sentence:
1  And what fun to eat all you wanted without having censorious people say you weren't ladylike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  They were born old, grim and old and spying and censorious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  were nothing if not censorious, and would at once be fired with virtuous indignation when they heard of a case of vice or seduction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  But it is childish to waste our time in censorious judgment on the individual who does no worse than represent a ruling type.