censorious

T his gives a potentially strong democratic value to the medium, because a filter can sometimes be censorious.
Cette situation apporte une valeur démocratique potentiellement forte au médium, parce qu’un filtre peut quelquefois constituer une censure.
However, this report does not seek to be censorious; it attempts to approach these problems in a spirit of solidarity and indeed of seeking help for all states to comply with European values.
Toutefois, ce rapport ne cherche pas à critiquer : il tente d’aborder ces problèmes dans un esprit de solidarité et de recueillir le soutien afin que tous les États respectent les valeurs européennes.
A censorious spirit against authority, sympathy for the poor which reaches the point of hostility against the rich, lack of good taste, inferiority of style, and misquotation, such are the most glaring defects of these sermons.
Un esprit censure contre l'autorité, de la sympathie pour les pauvres, qui atteint le point d'hostilité contre les riches, le manque de bon goût, l'infériorité de style, et citation inexacte, tels sont les défauts les plus flagrants de ces sermons.
Therefore I cannot take the report's censorious tones at all seriously.
Je ne peux ainsi pas prendre le ton sévère du rapport au sérieux.
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