judgy

adjective

ˈjə-jē

variants or judgey

informal

: tending to judge others harshly or critically : judgmental

With the state's mandated water-use reductions taking effect on Monday, our lawns have become jungles of worry. Keep them green and face scary water bills and judgy neighbors.—

Karla Peterson

Examples of judgy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Resist the temptation to post a mean or judgy comment. —

Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020 But what if that person isn’t readily available or is kind of judgy? Dogs can be excellent listeners. —

cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020 Meanwhile, the Airthinx silently watched me with its judgy red light. —

Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired, 12 Dec. 2019 As Brittany’s stock improves in the prying, judgy eyes of the world around her, she’s stuck with a load of defense mechanisms and the rote psychological impulse to push people away, and treat every act of kindness as pity. —

Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019

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