Censorious people delight in casting blame.
Source: tatoeba (1994)
Censorious
/sɛnˈsɔɹiəs/
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strong disapproval
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The move comes as social media companies face increasing pressure from those who say their platforms spread misinformation, and those who say they are too censorious.
Source: tatoeba (11813308)
Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; […]
Source: wiktionary
[S]he remembered the Countess of Rotheles's advice, and she well knew the very pointed words and looks Lady Allerton could assume when it suited her humour to be censorious, and was well aware that every particular of the evening's entertainment would be transmitted with a jaundiced tint to Rotheles Castle for the amusement and animadversion of her invalid brother.
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