criticise

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I don't want to criticise the blub essay too much because there were some valid points in there.

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Quick take

find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of criticise gathered in one view.

verb

find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

verb

act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for criticise.

verb

find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

verb

act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either"

Example sentences

I don't want to criticise the blub essay too much because there were some valid points in there.

Similarly, other people are free to criticise his views.

It's valid to criticise the use of bitcoins on this basis, but it's not a systemic problem.

We often criticise systemd for being too bloated, and making it hard to write a drop in replacement.

People have been crying out for PayPal to change - he notices this, he emails the guy with a first class email but still gets criticised.

There are much more internally-consistent ways to criticise them.

It's not the low-pay per se that concerns those who criticise the outsourcing of everything to the developing world.

* If they make most of their cash from enterprise, is it reasonable to criticise him for missing the phone/tablet revolution?

Perhaps they write nice things about Apple because Apple have been making really great products for a few years now. And if you actually read them you'll know that they do criticise Apple when they don't perform or do bad things.

We should expect companies to behave honorably and ethically and criticise them heavily when they don't.

I'm a lower-status character, so when you criticise someone you don't do it from a position of authority or strength - it doesn't seem arrogant.

I have every right to criticise a business if I believe their product is harmful, regardless of how popular or successful that business might be.

We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.

We can criticise both the Patriotic Act and the state of emergency in dictatorships and hold them to different standards or criticise them in different tones based on the degree of digression as compared to the values they claim they uphold and our own values.

"spectacular hubris that's somewhere between laughable and profoundly obnoxious"Confucius say, man who writes sneery headline about "that's adorable" not best placed to criticise others for being obnoxious.

Proper noun examples

Criticise him if he doesn't act, don't criticise the guy for being big enough to say 'hey, we have a problem, I want to fix it' - that should be applauded, even if it's come later than people would have liked - at least it has come.