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词汇 hypercritical
释义 hypercritical
adjective
uk /ˌhaɪ.pəˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
extremely critical(= too eager to find mistakes in everything)吹毛求疵的,过分挑剔的
Synonym
ultra-critical
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Critical & uncomplimentary
acidulous
aloof
astringency
astringently
barbed
be all very wellidiom
captious
censorious
derogatory
pungently
scarifying
scarifyingly
scathing
scathingly
scorchingly
shade
sniffy
uncomplimentary
venomous
witheringly

Examples of hypercritical


hypercritical
When these reactions are particularly intense, the patient can become morose, withdrawn, hypercritical, cantankerous, or openly defiant.
In most of the following pages the reply takes a snide, hypercritical approach to many of the basic problems.
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It is very easy now, when you do not feel quite in the same state, to be hypercritical.
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I must say my noble friends are rather hypercritical.
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I think we may regard any excess upon that as being thoroughly legitimate, and nothing to be cavilled at by the most hypercritical economist.
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I do not want to be hypercritical, but the phrasing is, representation on the school management committee of the education authority.
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It really is hypercritical of them to seek to dismiss the reality of that now.
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These preoccupations make them hypercritical of expenditure cuts.
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We have also become hypercritical of our own societies and institutions.
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It is hypercritical of drafting, which is a subject about which anyone can argue.
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I do not wish to frame my remarks in any hypercritical spirit.
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Indeed, those who were hypercritical used to say that the corporation built nothing but warehouses.
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We do not do it with a view to wasting public time or with any hypercritical object, but simply because we are entitled to be informed on these points.
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I have tried not to be hypercritical.
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One is lather apt to be hypercritical.
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