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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are two ways to escape the proprieties of a censorious culture.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
• Many of the censorious open letters that have been signed by academics in recent years share three important features.
  — The Economist, 23 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• To some of you, Mark Zuckerberg is the chief of the Thought Police, excessively censorious and callously zapping away any post that contains thought crime.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• His entourage gathered around the book for a long moment, until Mr. Boyega wrinkled his nose and ran a censorious finger along the image of his untidy hairline.
  — Ben Widdicombe, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Musk’s stated plan with all this—at least the one that doesn’t change from week to week—is to purge Twitter of its censorious past, and fully embrace the idea of a digital town square governed by the normative principles of free speech.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
• Anyone who wins the award this year can, and likely will, be claimed and celebrated on behalf of free speech and bravery in the face of the censorious mob, and against the excesses of political correctness.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That man died in 1915, leaving behind less a legacy and more a joke in the periodic usage of the term Comstockery to denote censorious impulses.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• So, why would females be more censorious observers of people’s performances than males?
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Two have been handled by New Day co-host Chris Cuomo, who does not lack self confidence and can get rather censorious and prosecutorial.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 July 2017
• 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
• One of the points of continuing to revere the ancient gods in a censorious, monotheistic age was to permit people to see (and write poems about) what was otherwise forbidden.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• Schools are precisely the place where politics and identity are shaped, and because of this, students need the widest array of materials to learn from, including those that offend censorious parents on the left as well as the right.
  — Jay Parini, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• In our censorious era, there is something wonderfully unkillable about the old gods and heroes.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• Drug-overdose deaths are surging; reports of theft on downtown streets, including an almost two-hundred-per-cent increase in car break-ins in 2021, have crossed the national media to censorious response.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Or would our polarized times and censorious culture deny that opportunity on either the left or right?
  — Paul A. Gigot, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• Williamson does not disappoint for those who are attracted to this work to get the inside scoop on his own brush with the censorious mob that ejected him from a brief tenure at The Atlantic over a ginned-up, intellectually dishonest contretemps.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 25 July 2019
• With the censorious French regime growing increasingly hostile to socialist movements, Cabet saw his opportunity in the vast open lands of the United States.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024