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CENSORIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harshly critical or expressing censure
Example:
was censorious of petty failings
Classified under:
Similar:
critical (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws)
Derivation:
censor (someone who censures or condemns)