How to Use censorious in a Sentence

censorious

adjective
  • I was surprised by the censorious tone of the book review.
  • The stunt earned her the scorn of her censorious older sister.
  • Well, that hellish censorious atmosphere didn’t last long.
    — Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There are two ways to escape the proprieties of a censorious culture.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Here’s hoping the game will come with a patch at some point after its release to undo this censorious nonsense.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Religious critics seem to reserve the right to be censorious not just in the use of paint but in depictions of physique.
    — Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Many of the censorious open letters that have been signed by academics in recent years share three important features.
    — The Economist, 23 July 2019
  • When pressed, many of these young men seem to have bought the pitch that, of the two parties, the Republicans were the less censorious.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • So, why would females be more censorious observers of people’s performances than males?
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2022
  • To me, the events surrounding the removal of Mann’s photographs echo those of a censorious past.
    — Amy Werbel, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
  • If this even needs to be said, the censorious attitudes of today do not apply equally to all types and directions of research.
    — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The result has been a generation of creatives who are more censorious and judgmental than their forebears.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • These artists fear for the current and future viability of their work in an environment that gets more censorious each year.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait has been warning for five years that the left is on a censorious path.
    — Shikha Dalmia, TheWeek, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But we’re relieved that Marlene herself doesn’t succumb to her mother-in-law’s censorious judgment.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Andrea, by contrast, keeps her own feelings at arm’s length while permitting herself to slink around with him, out of view of her censorious and gossip-loving friends.
    — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In our censorious era, there is something wonderfully unkillable about the old gods and heroes.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Twitter and other tech platforms might become more censorious, not less, and conservatives aren’t likely to be favored in that scrum.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Vance opened a lot of eyes to the reality that there are many Catholics who are less the charitable, loving kind and more the censorious, hating kind.
    — Peter H. Schwartz, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Broadly speaking, Musk has said that Twitter is a censorious entity that has too many stringent rules about what its users can post on the platform.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 10 May 2022
  • Currently, though, too many administrators seem content to serve as enablers to the worst impulses of the censorious mob.
    — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • By the time of the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois was a towering presence who could come off at times as aloof and censorious.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Many artistic types relocated to Hong Kong (governed by the British at the time) to avoid the censorious Reds.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Platner also believes Democrats are seen as censorious and unforgiving of offensive language in a way that has not helped their party.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Snowflakes were the pronoun-conscious, trigger-word-vigilant, censorious young people who were the right’s cartoonish depiction of the young adults of the left.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • To the conservatives, liberals were censorious, socialist scolds who wanted to fire anyone who disagreed with them.
    — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Still a censorious figure, Philip nevertheless was idolized by Charles.
    — Sally Bedell Smith, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The censorious values that produced the Comstock Act, in other words, are quite alien to most modern-day Americans.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 May 2024
  • Congress should require American studios to disclose whether a film has been altered in any way to meet the approval of China’s censorious regime.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The onus is on schools and libraries to resist this censorious overreach, which takes time and resources, and many have chosen to preemptively remove books rather than face a legal or public challenge.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026

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