Disparaging vs Censorious - What's the difference?
disparaging | censorious |
Insulting, ridiculing.
disparagement
* Thomas Hardy
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
As adjectives the difference between disparaging and censorious
is that disparaging is insulting, ridiculing 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 disparaging
is .As a noun disparaging
is disparagement.disparaging
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.
Synonyms
* degradingVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings .
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.