critic
IPA: krˈɪtɪk
noun
- A person who appraises the works of others.
- A specialist in judging works of art.
- One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
- An opponent.
- Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism) [(uncountable) The art of criticism.]
- Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism) [(uncountable) The art of criticism.]
verb
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
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Examples of "critic" in Sentences
- John, there are those who are only too easily in "critic" mode.
- The dish might serve as a prime example of the term "critic bait."
- He might discover that a critic is a man who has very little use of his senses.
- It's always nice when a critic is able to share his god-like wisdom and set poor novelists straight about what they ought to do.
- Errr…This a big distinction between criticism, mindless bashing, and mindless bashing in which you call your critic a pedophile.
- If using the White House propaganda machinery to try to discredit a critic is a crime, then every administration since John Adams could be considered a criminal enterprise.
- Not because the critic is always “right”, but because they open a door for the rest of us cinephiles to engage in logical debate and think critically about the what we are watching.
- # The word critic comes from the Greek κριτικός (kritikós), "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word κριτής (krités), meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation. ...
- Normally bad reviews are based on hatred (i.e. a critic will hate the swearing in my books so much they launch into an evangelical diatribe!) or jealousy, because the critic is an unpublished SF author who obviously considers their own unpublished work superior.
- Though, for our part, we are 'fully convinced that the fcience of criticifm, like mod others, has received great improvement fince the ages of thofe writers; and that a much more accurate teft of poetical excellence might be ap - plied, than the loofe and dubious fentences of the above poet - critic and. critic* poet; yet Mr.W. 's paraphraftical application,
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