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  • s  harshly critical or expressing censure
    was censorious of petty failings

  • A cocked eyebrow, a smirk, even a suggestive pause in speech can make the censorious heart skip a beat.
  • But one important voice was as wrong as any of them and now is among the most censorious about the way things have turned out.
  • But as Sigmund Freud would say, where there is a censorious superego you shouldn't have to look too far to find a subversive underlying idthe perfect description of Jack Neo, an .
News & Articles

  • Apple needs to re-evaluate its censorship, but we don’t want the walls to come down entirely
    Apple won't autocorrect you when you misspell words such as abortion, and murder, which is another example of its bizarre, vaguely censorious attitude. While we want it to give us the choice, we'd rather it didn't abandon its vigilance entirely. The post Apple needs to re-evaluate its censorship, but we don’t want the walls to come down entirely appeared first on Digital Trends .
    July 20, 2013 - Digital Trends
Quotes

  • Alan Duncan in BBC News
    Announcing his withdrawal to The Times, Mr Duncan said: "Censorious judgmentalism from the moralising wing, which treats half our countrymen as enemies, must be rooted out."
  • Rebekah Wade in Media Guardian
    It just doesn't happen,Wade told the committee. "These are hypothetical questions and I'm being very frank with you. I can't remember one occasion when we have discussed tomorrow's newspaper in the censorious sense that you keep telling me...

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