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criticism: a serious examination and judgment of something; "constructive criticism is always appreciated"; a written evaluation of a work of literature; disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings; "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent"

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lexicography collapse: the act of writing dictionaries

bad notices collapse

bad press collapse

animadversion collapse

cryptography collapse: act of writing in code or cipher

carping collapse

nit picking collapse

nit collapse: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing; a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

niggle collapse

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

quibbling collapse

critique collapse

paleography collapse: the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

pestering collapse

nagging collapse

faultfinding collapse: persistent petty and unjustified criticism

niggling collapse

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

flak collapse

cavil collapse: raise trivial objections

fault-finding collapse

impeachable collapse

indictable collapse

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

culpable collapse

aspersion collapse: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare); an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"

imputation collapse: the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"; a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"

stricture collapse: severe criticism

to blame collapse

imputable collapse

dissection collapse: cutting so as to separate into pieces; detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work); a minute and critical analysis

comment collapse: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"; explain or interpret something; make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague"

analyzing collapse

judgement collapse

gauging collapse

swipe collapse: a sweeping stroke or blow; strike with a swiping motion

pet peeve collapse: an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed; "grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve"

commentary collapse

yapping collapse

scolding collapse: who is rebuking severely; "the scolding father"

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