Usually means: Expresses disapproval or faults publicly.
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  1. criticizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. criticizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. criticizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Criticizes, criticizes: Wordnik
  5. criticizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. criticizes: Wiktionary
  7. criticizes: Dictionary.com
  8. criticizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. criticizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. criticizes: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (criticize)

▸ verb:  To find fault (with something).
▸ verb:  To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
▸ Also see criticize


Opposite:
praises, compliments, approves, lauds

Types:
constructive, destructive, sarcastic, mean, nice, helpful, honest, brutal, harsh, more...

Phrases:
criticizes severely, criticizes harshly, more...



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Opposite:
praises, compliments, approves, lauds

Types:
constructive, destructive, sarcastic, mean, nice, helpful, honest, brutal, harsh, more...

Phrases:
criticizes severely, criticizes harshly, more...




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