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to show disapproval of someone or something
criticizeHe criticized the government's handling of the crisis.
attackShe wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted.
condemnShe was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
denounceThe government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
come under fireThe government programme has come under fire for mismanaging funds.
[ T ]
to give an opinion or judgment about a book, film, etc.: 评论，评判（书、影片等）
We're a group of artists who meet to discuss ideas and criticize each other's work.我们是一帮碰了面就讨论问题、互相评论彼此作品的艺术家。
If I criticize him, he gets aggressive and starts shouting.如果我批评他，他就会寻衅大吵大闹。
He was under attack for daring to criticize the prime minister.
It doesn't do to criticize your parents.不可以批评父母。
She grudgingly admitted that she had been wrong to criticize him.她不情愿地承认了批评他是错误的。
I've been slogging my guts out these past few weeks and all he can do is criticize.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
poorly
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher

Examples of criticizing

criticizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Similar contrasts figure in the other chapters, but, happily, their focus is more on demonstrating ethnomethodological inquiry than on criticizing other approaches.
By repeating our message frequently and criticizing policies and procedures, we established a record.
To date, political theorists have focused more on criticizing old approaches than on developing new and better ones.
Sometimes social workers undermine informal helpers by criticizing them or trying to assume their roles.
Economists of all persuasions are fond of criticizing government policies.
When the initial presentation of a very broad approach is at issue, one can hardly go wrong in criticizing it for vagueness.
None of this, however, prevents him from criticizing the "people," his fellow citizens, for their failure to rise against the empire.
At least, he wasn't criticizing us even though he had a lot of provocation.
Man-machine metaphors permeated public discourse so deeply that it proved impossible to step outside this metaphorical language even for the sake of criticizing it.
It does not account for the appeal of criticizing hedonism on the grounds that it is psychologically superficial.
The history of science is usually perceived in terms of innovation, change, criticizing and breaking with older ideas.
The perspective of rational egoism proves highly useful for criticizing oppressive commitments.
By the same token, one could rhetorically ask what is the point of criticizing a university's symphony orchestra.
By stressing internationalism and criticizing the bourgeois national ideologies they kept the critique of nationalism and nation-states alive in the epoch of triumphant nationalism.
The experimenter responded by mildly criticizing the child's work and asking the child to draw another circle.
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