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

He distorted emails and other exchanges to make them look coercive when they were nothing of the sort, cherry-picking and rearranging quotations to put them in a censorious light.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2024

How can it be explained, not only to the loved ones left behind, but to a censorious public?

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer