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criticizeverb to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality ofpeople who criticize every single idea that the principal has for improving the school blame, censure, condemn, denounce, dis(also diss, slang), dispraise, fault, knock, pan, reprehend, slag(chiefly British) skewer, tweakassail, attack, blast, clobber, slam, slashnick (at), snipe (at)beef, bellyache, bitch, carp, cavil, complain, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grouse, growl, grumble, kick, kvetch, moan, murmur, mutter, niggle, quibble, whineadmonish, chide, drub, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproveberate, castigate, crucify, excoriate, flay, gibbet, hammer, keelhaul, lambaste(or lambast), lash, pillory, scold, upbraidbad-mouth, belittle, decry, deride, discommend, disparage, put down come down hard (on), find fault (with), take to task extol(also extoll), laud, praise approve, commend, endorse(also indorse), recommend, sanction criticize, reprehend, censure, reprobate, condemn, denounce mean to find fault with openly.criticize implies finding fault especially with methods or policies or intentions.criticized the police for using violence reprehend implies both criticism and severe rebuking.reprehends the self-centeredness of today's students censure carries a strong suggestion of authority and of reprimanding.a Senator formally censured by his peers reprobate implies strong disapproval or firm refusal to sanction.reprobated his son's unconventional lifestyle condemn usually suggests an unqualified and final unfavorable judgment.condemned the government's racial policies denounce adds to condemn the implication of a public declaration.a pastoral letter denouncing abortion in 1643 |