stricturenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈstrɪk.tʃər/us/ˈstrɪk.tʃɚ/formalstricture noun [ C ] (CRITICISM)
a statement of severe criticism or disapproval:
The strictures of the United Nations have failed to have any effect on the warring factions.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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stricture noun [ C ] (LIMIT)
a severe moral or physical limit:
religious/financial strictures
the Taliban's strictures on women's rights and education
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Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- specialized
- spread
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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