Criticize

Definition: Criticize

Criticize

Verb

1. Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie".

2. Act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "criticize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Criticize

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.

Judgment

Comment, criticize, kibitz; pass under review; (examine); investigate; (inquire).

Crosswords: Criticize

Now, as before, you criticize your own work. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

Oh, now you're going to criticize my driving? (Running Scared; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston)

Hey, you have no right to criticize the 20th century! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

And don't criticize what you can't understand ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

There's no more time left to criticize (Don't Look Back; performing artist: BOSTON)

And now you're starting to criticize little things I do. ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"; performing artist: The Righteous Brothers)

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Books

• 365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher (reference)

• How to Criticize Books (reference)

• Read First, Criticize Afterwards: Reading and Its Pedagogic Value with Rudyard Kipling's Anglo-Indians as Subject (reference)

• The Critical Edge: How to Criticize Up and Down Your Organization and Make It Pay Off (reference)

• To Criticize the Critic (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Let's Get Naked And Criticize Each Other (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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If you must criticize me in public, Muriel, you might at least remember ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Politically, intellectually, and ideologically, thoroughly criticize China's Khrushchev. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Recently, industry observers and professionals have begun to criticize this over-reliance on bid procedures. (references)

During the year, a number of Chinese spoke out publicly to criticize the Government or express views contrary to the official line. (references)

Children

Hungary

The MDRI and the PEF also criticize the use of cages in government facilities for persons with mental disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

The law limits the ability to criticize the President. (references)

Guyana

Citizens openly criticize the Government and its policies. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Political parties and other groups publish newspapers which often criticize government policies. (references)

Nepal

The law strictly forbids the media to criticize or satirize the king or any member of the royal family. (references)

Belgium

However, there also is a willingness to criticize U.S. policies and a tendency to adopt a more explicitly European viewpoint on many issues. (references)

Human Rights

Austria

NGO's and other groups continued to criticize the police for targeting minorities. (references)

Malaysia

Government officials harshly criticize domestic NGO's for collaborating with foreigners, including international human rights organizations. (references)

Singapore

A handful of domestic nongovernmental organizations criticize restrictions on human rights or suggest changes that would relax or remove restrictions. (references)

Indigenous People

Guyana

Both Amerindian individuals and groups remain free to criticize the Government. (references)

Brazil

They also criticize the Government for devoting insufficient resources to health care, other basic services, and protection of indigenous reserves from outsiders. (references)

Japan

Many Ainu criticize the Law to Promote Ainu Culture for not advancing Ainu political rights and criticize the Government for not providing funds for noncultural activities that would improve Ainu living conditions or financial status. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

While the OSCE and some other international organizations such as the Finnish Helsinki Committee have found the citizenship law to be satisfactory, some officials in the U.N., the Russian Government, and members of the local ethnic Russian community continued to criticize the Citizenship Law as discriminatory, notably for its Estonian language requirements. (references)

Political Economy

POLAND

Polish industry and exporters criticize the government for too little export promotion support. (references)

Malaysia

The Government continued to criticize harshly human rights NGO's, but also met with several such groups during the year. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

Museveni appeared at rallies supporting his favored candidates and used the occasion to criticize their opponents. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Both groups continue to criticize the Government, using computers and fax transmissions to send newsletters to Saudi Arabia. (references)

Syria

Although parliamentarians may criticize policies and modify draft laws, the executive branch retains ultimate control over the legislative process. (references)

Travel

Thailand

The revelation of what Westerners regard as rampant graft, corruption, and favoritism as an integral part of Thai business and political practice, and the recognition of the great cost to society these actions have caused in the wake of the financial crisis, is causing many Thais to openly criticize, for the first time, the behavior of the privileged and powerful . Previously referred to euphemistically as "the Thai way," such favoritism was not necessarily tolerated, but not directly challenged . The new economic and social era in the making holds promise of also being fairer and more transparent . (references)

Women

Slovak Republic

NGO's criticize existing legislation for protecting aggressors over victims. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Labor leaders continued to criticize the reform package as too limited in scope. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "criticize": criticize maliciously ♦ criticize smb.'s views. Additional references.

Afrikaans

kritiseer (censure), beoordeel (censure, judge), bekritiseer (censure). (various references)

Albanian

kritikoj (animadvert, attack, censure, crab, criticise, hit, pan, slam), bëj kritikën (criticise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقد (cash, commentary, criticism, critique, money, paper, rave, recourse, review), ‏إنتقد (carp, fault, find fault, lace, maul, nibble, peck, quarrel, slash, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

критикувам (animadvert, bad-mouth, crab, fault, nibble, pick at, run down), анализирам (analyse, analyze, break down, decompose, dissect, process, resolve). (various references)

Chinese 

非議 , 議 (discuss), 譴責 (condemn, denounce), 指責 (find fault with), 挍 (clothes, compare, dress, garment, submit, take), 批评 (Backbiting, Criticise, Criticised, Criticising, Criticism, Critique), 批判 . (various references)

Czech

posuzovat (adjudicate, regard, view), pohánìt (actuate, hustle, impel, insult, propel, push), odsoudit (condemn, convict, denounce, judge, reprobate, sentence), kritizovat (denounce, pick holes in, speak against), hanìt (reprehend, vituperate). (various references)

Danish

kritisere (censure). (various references)

Dutch

kritiseren (censure), keuren (censor, censure), beoordelen (censure, judge). (various references)

Esperanto

kritiki. (various references)

Farsi 

نکوهش کردن (Reprove), نقدادبی کردن , انتقادکردن (Blame, Review). (various references)

Finnish

suomia (thrash, whip), moittia (blame, find fault with, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold), arvostella (estimate, judge). (various references)

French

critiquer. (various references)

German

kritisieren (censure, jump on, review, speak against, to criticize, to review, zing). (various references)

Greek 

επικρίνω (animadvert, carp, censure, crab, criticise, criticism, decry, fulminate, objurgate, pan, reprove, scarify, score, upbraid). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתוח בקורת (score), ל�"עריך (appraise, assess, comment, estimate, evaluate, measure, set store by, size up, value). (various references)

Hungarian

kritizál (badmouth, to criticise, to criticize, to find fault with, to get down on sy, to kick, to pass strictures on, to pass strictures upon, to reflect on, to slag, to slag off), elbírál (assess, evaluate, judge, to reconsider). (various references)

Indonesian

mengkritik (excoriate), mencereweti (find fault with, order about), mencamkan (note, observe carefully), mencacat (find fault with). (various references)

Italian

criticare (animadvert, blame, censure, chide, comment, criticise, knock, objurgate, slam, slate, tear into). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

講評 (criticism, review). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うひょう (criticism, favorable reputation, hailstorm, high reputation, official announcement, popular opinion, popularity, proclamation, review, your esteemed opinion). (various references)

Korean 

강평하십시�" (Criticise). (various references)

Manx

scrudaghey, cremmey. (various references)

Maya

saapt aak (to criticize). (various references)

Papiamen

kritiká (censure). (various references)

Pig Latin

iticizecray

Portuguese

criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, clapperclaw, comment, complain, find fault, impeach, knock, land on, review, slash, vet). (various references)

Romanian

critica (animadvert, arraign, attack, carp, censure, condemn, defame, judge, lash, pick, pick holes in, preach down, pull to pieces, slate), comenta (annotate, comment, observe on, observe upon, remark), recenza (notice, review), judeca (adjudge, adjudicate, calculate, censure, condemn, deem, discuss, give, judge, ratiocinate, reason, slate, think, try), emite (discharge, effuse, emit, express, flash, float, give, give forth, give off, issue, reissue, release, send, stream, suggest, transmit, utter, vent), dezbate (agitate, argue, beat out, break, canvass, contest, controvert, debate, dispute, fall, review). (various references)

Russian 

критиковать (animadvert, rap, satirize, sit in judgement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamerati (animadvert, nag, reproach), kritikovati (castigate, crab, fault, pan, piss, put down). (various references)

Spanish

criticar (animadvert, belabor, belabour, carp, censure, chicane, comment, fault, indict, judge, knock, nag, pick, pick on, zing), censurar (animadvert, blame, blue pencil, censor, censure, condemn, decry, deprecate, dispraise, impeach, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, take up, talk down, talk out, talk through, view). (various references)

Swedish

kritisera (animadvert upon, batter, castigate, censure, comment, critisize, denounce, fault, knock, lash, review, take apart). (various references)

Turkish

tenkit etmek (animadvert, censure, put down), kusur bulmak (arraign, carp, cast reflection on smb., cavil, crab, fault, find fault, pick at, pick holes in, pick on, reflect on, reflect upon, reprehend), kritiğini yapmak (review), eleştirmek (animadvert, attack, carp, censure, chastise, clobber, comment, damn, examine, expostulate, notice, pan, put down, review, riddle). (various references)

Ukrainian

критикувати (animadvert, assault, attack, baste, pick to pieces, pick up holes, pull apart, sound off), осуджувати (animadvert, damn, denounce, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, impeach, judge, reprehend, reprobate, reprove). (various references)

mordeant, mordeat, mordebit, mordebunt, mordens, mordent, mordetis, morsu, morsus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "criticize": criticized, criticizer, criticizers, criticizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Criticize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cliticize, cricitize, critcize, criticeze, critici, criticis, criticizm, criticsize, critieize, critiscise, critisize, crticize, eroticize, tritici. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: icteric.

-3 letters: citric, cretic, critic, iritic.

-4 letters: cerci, ceric, citer, icier, ictic, recti, trice.

-5 letters: cire, cite, etic, rice, rite, ritz, tier, tire, ziti.

+1 letter: criticized, criticizer, criticizes.

+2 letters: criticizers.

+3 letters: criticizable.