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1 —1 use as in:
don't be so critical
Definition
finding fault and telling others; or tending to have unfavorable opinions
- He had criticized Lucy Friedman's lounge lizard piece which Annie considered quite brilliant; he'd queried the design team over two front covers—not in a heavy-handed way but enough to make an impression; and he'd sent Annie a long memo about how he thought their coverage of Wall Street was slipping behind the competition.Nineteen (14% in)
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- Grace hadn't meant to imply any criticism of her mother but she knew from the way Diane looked at her that this was how it had sounded.Nineteen (80% in)
- She thought they had done just that with Fenimore Fiske, the magazine's aging and insufferable movie critic who was now badmouthing her in the Post.One (40% in)
- The downside of doing it alone was of course the inevitable criticism he would face for buying the wrong things.One (81% in)
- Words intended as motherly guidance seemed increasingly doomed to be taken as criticism.Two (23% in)
- The office bloodletting had made her irritable and more than usually critical.Two (81% in)
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