Criticise
[kritisaiz]
Definition
(v. t.) To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
(v. t.) To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.
(v. i.) To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.
(v. i.) To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Examine and estimate (as works of art or of literature), remark upon (with reference to merits and defects), pass judgment upon.
Typist: Ludwig
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Examine, scan, perpend, analyze, discuss, anatomize, animadvert
ANT:Slur, survey, overlook, skim
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Examples
- I do not criticise the failure to capture Chapultepec at this time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was but little if anything in the whole campaign, now that it is over, to criticise at all, and nothing to criticise severely. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You want me to be your thing, never to criticise you or to have anything to say for myself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Criticise me: does my forehead not please you? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Osborne was severe against Ralph, and told me he was no better able to criticise than to compose verses. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Villard has often been blamed and severely criticised, but he was not the only one to blame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I say this because I have criticised his military judgment in the removal of Johnston, and also in the appointment of Hood. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Belmont was severely criticised in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results, or the possibility of them from the beginning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As dinner-giving, and as criticising other people's dinners, she took satisfaction in it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She must not flatter herself that he thought of her dancing, but if he were criticising her behaviour, she did not feel afraid. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This success flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me, by criticising my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The part Mr. Vincy preferred playing was that of the generous host whom nobody criticises. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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