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criticize Definition

criti·cize (kritə sīz′)

intransitive verb, transitive verb -·cized′, -·ciz′·ing

  1. to analyze and judge as a critic
  2. to judge disapprovingly; find fault (with); censure

criticize Related Forms
criti·ciz′·able adjective criti·ciz′er noun
criticize Synonyms

criticize

v.

  1. To make a considered criticism

    study, probe, scrutinize; see analyze 1, examine 1.

  2. To make adverse comments

    censure, find fault with, reprimand; see censure. See syn. study at censure.

criticize Usage Examples

Object

  • Christianity: Amidst all this, Raven vaguely criticizes Christianity for rejecting Nature.
  • government: Read above about not being thrown in jail for criticizing the government on the internet.
  • regime: The question is about criticizing a regime, not criticizing people.
  • someone: It is always easy to criticize someone else's endeavors.
  • religion: Without criticizing religion, there would have been no religious reformation.
  • lack: Revd. would not be criticizing lack of Primates ' debate, had he completely loved it?

Preposition: on

  • ground: The conclusion of the RCT was criticized on the grounds of the depth of the radiotherapy administered.
  • point: Maysles Brothers films such as Salesman ( 1968 ) and Gimme Shelter ( 1970 ) can be criticized on two broad points.

Subject

  • people: Because he's getting criticized by people in the church and persecuted by people outside the church.

Adjective complement

  • current: The Technology CEO Council sharply criticized current U.S. policy toward spectrum allocation and called for a new 10-point " 21st century spectrum policy.

Modifying Another Word

  • harshly: Sander couldn't help from its new criticized harshly by.
  • roundly: Sullivan could be temperamental; anyone who crossed him faced career disaster, and he was roundly criticized for his deadpan delivery.
  • sharply: What is the revolutionist worth who leaves his party simply because someone has sharply criticized his ideas?
  • openly: Political prisoners are a thing of the past and ROC citizens can openly criticize their government.
  • severely: They were severely criticized for taking some of the grains to eat.
  • implicitly: Toward the end of his formal affiliation with the Cuban government, Che came to implicitly criticize Soviet bureacracy.

Used with why or when

  • what: More out of life his winnings to criticized strongly what.
  • when: Michael Gray obviously has a love for Dylan's work but it doesn't stop him from criticizing when necessary.

Preposition: in

  • past: Namco have been criticized in the past for releasing updates in this series with only minimal improvements on the last.

Preposition: by

  • people: Because he's getting criticized by people in the church and persecuted by people outside the church.
criticize Quotes

Do not criticize your Government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer