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censurious en · ADJ

Etymology

From censure + -ious.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of censorious.
   alt of censorious
   • Since taking over Twitter, Musk has regularly boosted, echoed, and embraced thoughts and thinkers commonly classified (often by the practitioners themselves) under the ideological category "neoreaction," which roughly thinks a domineering, censurious machine of progressive thought control has ruined the West with dangerously wrong beliefs in things such as democracy, cosmopolitanism, and equality of the sexes or races. 2025 January 4, Brian Doherty, “The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk”, in Reason.com:
   • I KNOW full well that all actions of men of whatsoeuer condition in these censurious tymes shal be scanned, as alredy I am informed mine haue bine in the execution of my souuerains late commands: euen since yesterday that I parformed the same, committinge sir Walter Rawligh, and some of his adherants and instruments to his intended scape from out of my custody to the Tower. 1618, Lewis Stukley, “Lewis Stukelye's Apollogie writte with his owne hand”, in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., volume VIII: Miscellaneous works, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1829, page 783:

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