censorious

The word fell on them with the full censorious weight of her great voice.

Others were censorious; it was not, they said, the professional thing to do.

But the censorious are always trying to find new ways of suppression.

The only thing that could be urged against him by the most censorious was a too close attention to business.

But she was still only 23 and lived almost another 60 years, surviving into a more censorious world.

The girl thought that, this evening, the old man looked even more put out and censorious than usual.

Therefore I cannot take the report's censorious tones at all seriously.

For a moment he sounded stem, censorious - and very sure of himself.

How can it be explained, not only to the loved ones left behind, but to a censorious public?

If they fell below his standard he was disappointed, but not censorious.

Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words.

That awful censorious voice rarely came out of my mouth.

Reaction in the streets of the capital was swift and censorious.

"That is not meant to sound censorious my dear friends.

"And he never does anything else," said the old lady of the censorious countenance.

But more pertinently, as a liberal paper we are not censorious.

I could not be sure; but the woman I had become was less censorious than the old.

She added that it was an "unwarranted and censorious move".

By introducing the issue, even in a censorious manner, we're at risk, legally.

A stern and censorious woman, except in such cases.

The most censorious thing we could find was a shop sign saying: "No sticky fingers."

His father was a teacher of deaf children, an amateur painter and a censorious man.

She was too censorious, too ready to point out faults.

Later, he said, they realized that these explicitly censorious provisions looked bad and removed them.