Synonyms for
Criticise
Definition
To express disapproval of someone or something or to find faults in someone or something.
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Antonyms
Common collocations
- criticise harshly
- criticise severely
- criticise openly
- criticise unfairly
- criticise constructively
- criticise the government
- criticise the decision
Word family
Usage note
Often used to express disapproval or find fault. Can be used formally or informally, but the intensity of the criticism can vary greatly depending on context.
Example sentences
- The teacher criticised the student's behavior in class.
- He criticised the restaurant's service.
- She criticised his decision to quit his job.
- The boss criticised the employee's performance.
- He criticised the government's policies on healthcare.
Quotes
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
A critic is someone who knows the way but can't drive the car. - Kenneth Tynan
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle