censorious

Example Sentences

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Even after her mother’s death in 2020 at 96, that censorious voice remained “embedded in my most primitive responses, in my very limbic system.”

From Los Angeles Times

But the council’s censorious plans for the library made them “outraged, and this was enough,” said Carryl.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps to the dismay of the censorious, it is also instructional.

From Los Angeles Times

"We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans," the open letter states.

From Salon

Even as other spaces for public expression have shrunk under Mr Xi's increasingly censorious regime, stand-up comedy has thrived, allowing young people to take a light-hearted view of their joys and frustrations.

From BBC