| 单词 | criticize |
| 释义 | crit·i·cize intransitive verb 1. < the man who did not criticize or reflect — G.L.Dickinson > 2. < an unpleasant person, always criticizing > transitive verb 1. < Dr. Burney criticized the manuscript very favorably — Elizabeth Lee > 2. < we are trying to get away from the word “management” because it has been lambasted, ridiculed, criticized, and blasted — Personnel Journal > Synonyms: < he does not criticize, he denounces — Times Literary Supplement > Often it means focusing attention on weak points, demerits, failings, and delighting in pointing them out < newspaper policy is attacked, display advertising is criticized, features are ridiculed — Public Relations Journal > reprehend, now more commonly used with grammatical objects designating things, actions, or qualities than persons, may imply a severe rebuke decided on after deliberate judgment < being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in public or in private … and in reproving show no signs of choler — George Washington > < the thing to be reprehended is the confusing misuse of the word “verse” — C.H.Grandgent > reprobate may suggest strong disapproval and firm rejection or final refusal to tolerate or sanction < those peaceful and friendly conferences between capitalists and trade-union leaders which are so reprobated by Marxist critics — H.B.Parkes > < he reprobated the “paltry jealousy” manifested toward Congress — H.R.Warfel > blame is now likely to indicate the placing of responsibility for something bad or unfortunate on a person or thing although it is still sometimes used as a general antonym of praise < the general was blamed for the defeat > < Heine … cared … whether people praised his verses or blamed them — Matthew Arnold > censure indicates disapproval delivered sternly, often as a reprimand from someone in an authoritative or competent position < the Times published an article … in which … all contemporary literature was censured — E.M.Forster > condemn may suggest a severe, unmitigated, final, or definitive judgment which is wholly unfavorable < vice, on this view, is condemned because it is a frustration of nature — G.L.Dickinson > < the entire week before election was a holiday and was condemned by ministers as a time “to meet, to smoke, to drink, carouse, and raise the devil” — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > denounce suggests stigmatizing publicly with force, vehemence, or conviction < members of the owning classes, who denounce alike the encroachment of the state and of organized labor upon the wealth which they have “made” — J.A.Hobson > < in all ages, priests and monks have denounced the growing vices of society — Henry Adams > |
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