CENSORIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► SAIR severely censorious, stern; harsh in discipline, treatment, or judgement → 1768 Sc.
► TARGING censorious, harsh, censorious, domineering → 1898 Sc.
► TWITTISH critical, censorious → 1939 chiefly UK
► TWITTY touchy, irritable, short-tempered; censorious, carping → 1825 orig. Eng. dial.
► VITUPERIOUS strongly censorious or abusive → 1604 obs.
NOUNS
► LEMON AVENUE ► LEMON LAND the ‘spiritual home’ of censorious or socially repressive people → 1910s Aust. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► MISERYGUTS a depressing, censorious person → 1950 sl.
► PICK-FAULT a censorious person; one who is ready to find fault → 1546 obs.
► SHEEP-BITER a malicious or censorious fellow → 1589 obs.
VERBS
► CAST A SCANSE ON to be censorious about, to treat with reproach → 1904 Sc.
► FULMINE to speak out fiercely and censoriously; to rage → 1623
► PICK A HOLE IN A PERSON’S COAT to be censorious → 1588 colloq.
► SCANCE to be censorious about, to criticize, to reproach, to taunt → 1801 Sc.
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