词汇释义

censorious, UK  /senˈsɔː.ri.əs/ US  /senˈsɔr.i.əs/ TEM8    GRE

adj, If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour. 挑剔的，苛责的

外刊例句

1. "Students' own representative bodies are far more censorious than universities," says Slater.(The Guardian)

2. Still, if anyone knows, please inform us before the censorious moderators get to work again (again)." In fairness there is no conclusive evidence about who is behind the trolling, although Guardian moderators, who deal with 40,000 comments a day, believe there is an orchestrated campaign.(The Guardian - Opinion)

3. If that wasn't enough, the censorious Daily Mail is alarmed by their unruly conduct.（The Guardian）

4. Elizabethan antis, in an early example of censorious scapegoating, were also minded to blame growing levels of public drunkenness on decadent foreign, or Catholic, influences.(The Economist)

5. Bluto (played by the now immortal John Belushi) was rallying the beleaguered brothers of Delta Tau Chi, victims of the censorious Dean Vernon Wormer and his campaign to obliterate the fraternity of debauched misfits.(The Economist)

6. Mr Cameron enables the party to take conservative positions on social and cultural issues without sounding censorious.(The Economist)

7. But if the right lessons are learned by all involved, there is less reason to despair than Indonesia's censorious editorial writers would have the nation, and the world, believe.(The Economist)

8. In the process the Tory party ended up sounding censorious about single parents, thereby getting on the wrong side of a demographic trend that has helped to keep it out of power ever since.(The Economist)

9. The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.(The Economist)

10. But there are other factors that sometimes conspire to produce an atmosphere that seems almost as hysterical: a tabloid media that are at once sensationalist and stridently censorious; a reductively adversarial parliament; and a centralised system of government, in which the fault for almost any cock-up can be traced to the top.(The Economist)

11. Or, if religious faith continues its American revival (matched in the Muslim world, but not in secular Europe), will it make people more contented, or merely more censorious?Theda Skocpol, a third-awakening sort of social thinker from Harvard University, takes a darker view.(The Economist）

12. He clearly continues to support traditional teaching on abortion and gay marriage, but in a less censorious way than his predecessors ("Who am I to judge?" he asked of homosexuals).(The Economist)

词汇搭配

censorious + way, remark, observation, attitude, spirit

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词汇来源

"fond of criticizing," 1530s, from Latin censorius "pertaining to a censor," also "rigid, severe," from censor (see censor (n.)). Related: Censoriously; censoriousness.

近义词

critical, severe, carping, disapproving, scathing, disparaging, judgmental, cavilling, condemnatory, fault-finding, captious

反义词

complimentary, approving

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