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What does censorious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  2. Implying or expressing censure.
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Prescott was not a censorious person, and he had a liking and some pity for the man.
Both sides were equally censuring and censorious in their own ways.
But today, the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
Mr Cameron enables the party to take conservative positions on social and cultural issues without sounding censorious.
I had to put my views into print to be scanned by thousands of educated people, including a number of hawk-eyed and censorious experts.
Few men are more contemptible than the brilliantly censorious critic who is deliberately wounding just for the sake of a witticism.

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