3.5.1.8 Criticize
Use this domain for words related to criticizing someone or something--to say that something is bad, especially something that someone did.
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(1) What words refer to criticizing someone or something?
Example words: criticize, be critical, be a critic of, critique, accuse, attack, launch into an attack on, badmouth, belittle, blame, carp, cavil, censure, cite, charge, decry, denounce, deprecate, deride, disparage, gibe, harangue, judge, lay into, mock, rake someone over the coals, recriminate, reprehend, reproach, ridicule, scoff, speak evil of, tear down (someone), voice your disapproval
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(2) What words refer to strongly criticizing someone or something?
Example words: slam, pan, tear to shreds, pillory, do a hatchet job on, blast, castigate, condemn, damn, excoriate, execrate
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(3) What words refer to criticizing someone in an unfair way?
Example words: find fault with, pick holes in, knock, run down, denigrate, put down, get at
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(4) What words refer to something someone says when criticizing?
Example words: criticism, critique (n), accusation, attack (n), belittlement, castigation, censure, charge, condemnation, denigration, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, derision, disapproval, disparagement, excoriation, execration, faultfinding, gibe (n), harangue (n), judgment, malediction, put-down, recrimination, reprehension, ridicule (n), slur
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(5) What words describe something someone says when criticizing?
Example words: critical (remark/essay), belittling, deprecatory, disparaging, scathing
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(6) What words refer to a person who often criticizes other people?
Example words: critic
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(7) What words describe someone who often criticizes other people?
Example words: critical, captious, censorious, hypercritical, judgmental
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(8) What words refer to being criticized by someone else?
Example words: receive criticism, come in for criticism, be under attack, come under attack, get a lot of flak, take a lot of flak, be open to criticism
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(9) What words refer to someone who is criticized?
Example words: target
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(10) What words refer to not criticizing someone?
Example words: don't blame, can't blame