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criticism

[ krit-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
  2. the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding.

    Synonyms: animadversion, stricture

  3. the act or art of analyzing and evaluating or judging the quality of a literary or artistic work, musical performance, art exhibit, dramatic production, etc.
  4. a critical comment, article, or essay; critique.
  5. any of various methods of studying texts or documents for the purpose of dating or reconstructing them, evaluating their authenticity, analyzing their content or style, etc.:

    historical criticism; literary criticism.

  6. investigation of the text, origin, etc., of literary documents, especially Biblical ones:

    textual criticism.



criticism

/ ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

  1. the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc
  2. the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
  3. the occupation of a critic
  4. a work that sets out to evaluate or analyse
  5. Also calledtextual criticism the investigation of a particular text, with related material, in order to establish an authentic text


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Other Words From

  • counter·criti·cism noun
  • over·criti·cism noun
  • pre·criti·cism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of criticism1

First recorded in 1600–10; critic + -ism

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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

Moreno in his Facebook post wrote the file he saw at the police station had copies of his public criticisms of Mariela Castro, including a hashtag that mocked her.

Oceanside is rethinking the process for hiring a new police chief in the face of criticism from community leaders.

The city changed its policy, after coming under criticism from District Attorney Summer Stephan, and the crime lab manager left the department.

By then, authorities’ inaction had already led to widespread criticism.

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That has become even more important at a time when it faces criticism for its initial handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated there.

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But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved.

However, the Republican base will be far less forgiving of Paul for his criticism of police policy and his courtship of Sharpton.

Roth responded to the criticism by saying that “Americans do not even know that this country exists.”

Of course, with such a soft-handed approach comes criticism from the Danish right.

The clip received heaps of Internet criticism after it went viral, and has since been pulled down from state channels.

I claim that it contains many errors of fact, and the Higher Criticism supports the claim; as we shall see.

He was professor of oriental languages; his dissertations on various subjects of criticism and antiquity were highly esteemed.

The socialist reads such criticism as the above with impatient approval.

Marshal Marmont has been called one of Napoleon's failures, but this criticism is one-sided and unjust.

But angels and ministers of grace defend us from ministers of religion who essay art criticism!

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