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Damning vs Censorious - What's the difference?

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Damning is a related term of censorious.


As adjectives the difference between damning and censorious

is that damning is condemning while censorious is addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

As a verb damning

is .

As a noun damning

is a condemnation.

damning

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • condemning
  • damning evidence was clear for all to see

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A condemnation.
  • * 2003 , Richard Traubner, Operetta: A Theatrical History (page 338)
  • This elicited damnings from pulpit and press, and insured a healthy run.
  • An act of swearing with the word "damn".
  • * (Daniel Defoe)
  • No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings , and swearings he makes.
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    censorious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • Implying or expressing censure.
  • * censorious remarks
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