Example sentences for: censorious

How can you use “censorious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (According to founding member Leda Cosmides, back when the group was formed in 1989, this seemed the best way to combat the censorious hostility directed at most people working in evolutionary psychology at the time.)

  • Here Roudinesco is rather limitingly censorious, wanting Lacan to pay his debts rather than being amazed by what he could make of what he found in the work of these remarkable people.

  • And certainly he overworked the word in the sense it has now of one who is publically censorious of the behavior of others.

  • When the reaction is not faux-naïf, it is censorious: Shut up and sublimate . Practitioners of self-exposure are many these days, of course, and none of them is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


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