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hypercritical

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hy·per·crit·i·cal  (hpr-krt-kl)
adj.
Excessively critical; captious.
hyper·criti·cal·ly adv.
hyper·criti·cism (--szm) n.
hypercritical [ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl]
adj
excessively or severely critical; carping; captious
hypercritic  n
hypercritically  adv
hypercriticism  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hypercritical - inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
overcritical
critical - marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"
hypercritical
adjective fault-finding, carping, fussy, niggling, censorious, finicky, cavilling, pernickety (informal), captious, overcritical, hairsplitting, overscrupulous, overexacting women who are hypercritical of their bodies
Translations
hypercritical [ˈhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl] ADJ → hipercrítico, ultracrítico
hypercritical [ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪk/əl] adj → ipercritico/a
hypercritical [ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪk/əl] adj → ipercritico/a


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But only for a minute -- only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart -- or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, any- way.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
I take the official oath today with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules.
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address by Lincoln, Abraham View in context
Pedantic and hypercritical, meddlesome and fault-finding, he was a terror to the clerks under him, whom he worried in their work, enforcing the rules rigorously, and arriving himself with such terrible punctuality that not one of them dared to be a moment late.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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