Censorious vs Cynic - What's the difference?
censorious | cynic |
Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
* 2013 , Holly Baxter, Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/masturbating-public-laughing-matter-sweden]
Implying or expressing censure.
* censorious remarks
cynical (in all senses)
(not comparable) Relating to the Dog Star.
A person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.
A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.
As adjectives the difference between censorious and cynic
is that censorious is addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners while cynic is of or relating to the cynics.As a proper noun cynic is
a member of a sect of ancient greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.censorious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was "not of a sexual nature" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.
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(wikipedia cynic)Alternative forms
* cynick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- the cynic''', or Sothic, year; '''cynic cycle
