censorious

Example Sentences

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Certainly, it will require resisting censorious dictates and flouting unjust laws.

From Washington Post

No, not that kind, though as a writer of the Jewish tradition, she invokes God as a creative, censorious and punishing He.

From Washington Post

“The sense that this has gone too far has triggered a backlash that is so much more censorious and silencing than what it purports to counter,” Suzanne Nossel, the head of PEN America, tells me.

From Washington Post

While she can set out the facts about the social gatherings that took place in and around Downing Street during lockdown, it is not clear how censorious she can be.

From BBC

Mr. Friedman called the new legislation “a slippery, censorious slope.”

From Washington Times