Criticize Meaning
/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo find fault (with something).
verbTo evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
Sentence Examples
Don't take it amiss if I criticize your work.
Far be it from me to criticize, but your dress is rather loud.
All you ever do is criticize!
CEFR Practice Quiz
Parents should never ____ their children in front of others.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Don't take it amiss if I ____ your work.
Word Origin & History
From critic + -ize; first element from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίσις (krísis, “decision, judgement”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Homophobia is based on criticizing any sexual expression outside of procreational sex."
— 1988 August 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “1978 Revisited”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 7:
"Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?"
— 1999 June 18, Rod Beaton, “Astros winning despite obstacles”, in USA Today:
"But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire."
— 2009, Eirik Vassenden, “Norway: The Province and its Metropolities”, in Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume 3, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 658:
"Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies."
— 2010, Paul Hacker, Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat's Eyewitness Account, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Parents should never ____ their children in front of others.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Don't take it amiss if I ____ your work.