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Criticize   /krˈɪtɪsˌaɪz/   Listen
Criticize

verb
1.
Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws.  Synonyms: criticise, knock, pick apart.  "Don't knock the food--it's free"
2.
Act as a critic.  Synonym: criticise.






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"Criticize" Quotes from Famous Books



... on letter ritin is off an we can say where we are. The only thing we cant do is criticize the army. I dont know where we are an I couldnt spell it anyhow so theres not ...
— "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" • Edward Streeter

... alive? Certainly not; she would then be lost to me. I had a cousin, a lady of high respectability, well married, who resided in the same town in which I lived. She had no child of her own; she had often spoken of adopting one. I frequently visited her house; and when there, she never ceased to criticize me for leading such an ascetic life. Here was an excellent opportunity for my new charge. My cousin would be delighted to have the guardianship of such a lovely creature. She would be as devoted to her as to an own child. She ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

... Bramble. He was a much-beribboned old warrior with a head like a faun and three red hairs on top of it. He had the respectful familiarity of the underling who knows he is indispensable, and he used to come in at all times of the day and criticize ...
— General Bramble • Andre Maurois

... Readers to criticize the magazine. Well, I have no complaints worth mentioning, except that some of the illustrations do not tally sufficiently with the text of the story. Some of the stories, in my opinion, are weak and not worth reading. But, as tastes ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... K.O.P.F. in the midst of bantering advice succeeded in separating the meat from the bones without landing a leg in anybody's lap or a wing in anybody's eye. Timid spectators who had hung back where he had dared might criticize his form, but they could not deny the efficiency of his execution. He was appointed permanent strafer of all the fowls that ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer


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