censorious

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And then there are “family values,” a whole range of social issues usually related to sexual behavior and typically expressed in censorious, moralizing terms.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

But the censorious effect is the same, even if deployed covertly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

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 • Oct. 17, 2025

In their TikTok video, Ben talked about how one particularly censorious editor tried to “destroy our entire side of Wikipedia” by tagging countless articles about roads and highways as non-notable topics that should be purged.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2023

The Verdun section of Montreal was in no sense a dressy neighborhood, and I was convinced that every passer-by was giving me a second, basically censorious look.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger