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hypercritical
[ hahy-per-krit-i-kuhl ]
hypercritical
/ ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl /
adjective
- excessively or severely critical; carping; captious
Derived Forms
- ˌhyperˈcritiˌcism, noun
- ˌhyperˈcritic, noun
- ˌhyperˈcritically, adverb
Other Words From
- hyper·criti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of hypercritical1
Example Sentences
“Being a current player you can’t really be too hypercritical or too nitpicky about either team because these are my teammates and these are also people I gotta see on the court still,” she said.
“There were some really odd things, but I just thought maybe I was being hypercritical,” she said.
Clarke Schmidt said it was probably one of the team’s better flights as far as turbulence goes, but that his teammates were hypercritical on the landing a little bit.
“Kind of by default, he is a hypercritical person of art or media. He’s a very natural like writer because he’s a real student of film and television.”
My mother and her peers were groomed by society to be hypercritical of themselves and later, of their daughters.
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