Finicky vs Censorious - What's the difference?
finicky | censorious |
(informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
(informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
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 finicky and censorious
is that finicky is (informal) fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details 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.finicky
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- ''The baby was finicky until her diaper was changed.
- The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.
Usage notes
* The forms (finickier) and (finickiest) also exist, but are quite rare, and perhaps nonstandard. The forms (term) and (term) are much more common, and certainly standard.Synonyms
* fastidious, fussy * SeeDerived terms
* finickiness * finickitycensorious
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.