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crit‧i‧cize W3 (also criticise British English) /ˈkrɪtəsaɪz, ˈkrɪtɪsaɪz/ verb
[Word Family: noun: critic, criticism; verb: criticize; adverb: critically ≠ uncritically; adjective: critical ≠ uncritical]
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to express your disapproval of someone or something, or to talk about their faults OPP praise:
　 ▪ Ron does nothing but criticize and complain all the time.
be strongly/sharply/heavily criticized
　 ▪ The decision has been strongly criticized by teachers.
　 ▪ The new law has been widely criticized.
criticize somebody/something for (doing) something
　 ▪ He has been criticized for incompetence.
　 ▪ Doctors have criticized the government for failing to invest enough in the health service.
criticize somebody/something as something
　 ▪ The report has been criticized as inaccurate and incomplete.

2. [TRANSITIVE]
formal to express judgments about the good and bad qualities of something:
　 ▪ We look at each other’s work and criticize it.
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COLLOCATIONS
adverbs
▪strongly/severely/heavily criticize somebody/something
　 ▪ Public transport has been severely criticized in the report.
▪sharply/harshly/fiercely criticize somebody/something (=in an angry way)
　 ▪ His attorney sharply criticized the police yesterday.
▪be widely criticized
　 ▪ The proposal was widely criticized.
▪publicly criticize somebody/something
　 ▪ The head coach publicly criticized the referee’s decision.
▪roundly criticize somebody/something (=strongly and severely)
　 ▪ Their research has been roundly criticized.
▪openly criticize somebody/something (=in a public and direct way)
　 ▪ They openly criticized the government’s handling of the crisis.
▪repeatedly/frequently/constantly criticize
　 ▪ The fashion industry is frequently criticized for presenting extremely thin models as beautiful.
phrases
▪be quick to criticize somebody/something
　 ▪ Some groups were quick to criticize the President.
▪criticize somebody/something on the grounds that (=for the reason that)
　 ▪ The survey was criticized on the grounds that the sample was too small.
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THESAURUS
▪criticize to say what you think is bad about someone or something :
　 ▪ He was criticized for not being tough enough with the terrorists.
　 ▪ Stop criticizing my friends!
　 ▪ It’s easy to criticize, but not so easy to offer helpful solutions.
▪be critical of somebody/something to criticize someone or something, especially by giving detailed reasons for this :
　 ▪ The report was highly critical of the police investigation.
　 ▪ The press have been critical of his leadership style.
▪attack to criticize someone or something very strongly, especially publicly in the newspapers, on TV etc :
　 ▪ They attacked the government’s decision to undertake nuclear weapons tests.
▪lay into somebody/tear into somebody to criticize someone very strongly for something they have done, especially by shouting at them :
　 ▪ He started laying into one of his staff for being late.
▪tear somebody/something to shreds to find a lot of things wrong with someone’s arguments or ideas and make them seem very weak :
　 ▪ The prosecution will tear him to shreds.
▪pan to strongly criticize a film, play etc in the newspapers, on TV etc :
　 ▪ Her first movie was panned by the critics.
▪be pilloried especially written to be strongly criticized by a lot of people in the newspapers, on TV etc :
　 ▪ He was pilloried in the right-wing press.
▪condemn to say very strongly in public that you do not approve of something or someone, especially because you think they are morally wrong :
　 ▪ Politicians were quick to condemn the bombing.
to criticize unfairly
▪find fault with somebody/something to criticize things that you think are wrong with something, especially small and unimportant things :
　 ▪ He’s quick to find fault with other people’s work.
▪pick holes in something informal to criticize something by finding many small faults in it, in a way that seems unreasonable and unfair :
　 ▪ Why are you always picking holes in my work?
▪knock to criticize someone or something, in an unfair and unreasonable way :
　 ▪ I know it’s fashionable to knock Tony Blair, but I think he did a good job.
▪slag off British English informal to criticize someone in an unfair and unpleasant way :
　 ▪ He’s always slagging you off behind your back.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heavily criticized
▪ The report was heavily criticized in the press.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
also
▪ Former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski was also criticized.
▪ Bennett also criticized Gingrich for his handling of a controversy surrounding Jackson and Rep.
▪ The opposition parties had also criticized other aspects of the electoral law.
▪ Norton also criticized the control board for studying whether the city should put a city manager at the helm.
▪ The report also criticizes Nirex for seeking to rush through its proposals without proper public consultation and expert examination.
▪ He was also criticized for employing a staff member who made inappropriate comments about a committee witness's religion.
▪ It also criticized the electricity companies for failing to take the lead in developing alternative energy sources.
▪ Also criticized was the second woman who claimed Albert assaulted her.
heavily
▪ It is important to note that for a variety of reasons clauses of this kind have been heavily criticized.
▪ Bozeman was heavily criticized for replacing Campanelli.
▪ The larger estates were heavily criticized for absent or late provision of social and community facilities.
often
▪ That neutrality is often criticized as hypocritical: all manner of metaphysical conclusions-as above-are usually taken as gospel.
publicly
▪ Two senior investigators into Stasi connections were dismissed in early March after publicly criticizing the government's exoneration of De Maizière.
▪ Can a teacher be dismissed for publicly criticizing school policy?
▪ Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3.
▪ Can teachers be disciplined for publicly criticizing their immediate superiors?
▪ Miller resigned abruptly after Hallinan publicly criticized her for failing to report the incident to him in a timely manner.
▪ But he had been on the bad side of the government lately, having publicly criticized it for censoring authors.
roundly
▪ Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.
▪ The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized.
severely
▪ In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others.
▪ As the war dragged on with little success, he was severely criticized.
sharply
▪ The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life.
▪ Yet the president is sharply criticized for convening a national forum to discuss our racial divisions.
▪ The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists.
▪ Reno has been criticized sharply by congressional Republicans for her failure to name an independent counsel.
▪ Matiukhin sharply criticized Gaidar's team and expressed disagreement with the government's budget commission.
▪ In the morning, he sharply criticized Jones for maverick marketing policies and accused him of trying to tear down the league.
▪ E was later sharply criticized by the Public Utilities Commission and politicians such as state Sen.
strongly
▪ This part of the Act has been strongly criticized and to some extent misused for a minority of very difficult cases.
▪ Former president Nixon strongly criticized Bush for failing to respond to the crisis in the republics with a massive aid program.
▪ Weber strongly criticized Marx's attempt to explain all social cleavages as the product of economically based class structures and struggles.
▪ It had also been strongly criticized by the tobacco industry.
▪ Parsons has been strongly criticized on all these points.
▪ Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk.
▪ It was strongly criticized by a majority of the Congress and by both business and the trade unions.
▪ In the 1960s and 1970s, psychologists strongly criticized the discipline's predominantly middle-class constitution.
widely
▪ The target has been widely criticized as too low.
▪ This money is not usually distributed on a truly competitive basis, a process that is widely criticized.
▪ Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred.
▪ The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state.
▪ The budget was widely criticized as being unrealistic and irrelevant to the real needs of the eastern economy.
NOUN
administration
▪ He also criticized the Blaize administration for the country's low credit rating.
▪ He has praised gang-fighting efforts and criticized the Clinton administration for waging an inadequate fight against drugs.
▪ When Republicans made a similar proposal in 1995, they were vigorously criticized by the administration.
▪ Dole may receive some help from the national Republican Party, which is already planning to run ads criticizing Clinton administration policies.
decision
▪ The next day Guo criticized the finance committee decision.
▪ Endara criticized Arias's decision as political opportunism, claiming that he intended preparing his candidature for the 1994 presidential elections.
▪ The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
▪ Kuhn's position leaves us with no way of criticizing the decisions and mode of operating of the scientific community.
department
▪ The report also criticized the department for refusing to accept that new roads generate more traffic.
environmentalist
▪ The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action.
▪ The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists.
▪ The reductions have been criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough.
▪ The thinking behind the report was criticized by environmentalists.
government
▪ Unlike most candidates calling for change or reform, Brown never had to forcefully criticize city government.
▪ However, the Supreme Soviet criticized the government over its social protection measures.
▪ Our purpose is not to criticize government, as so many have, but to renew it.
▪ In authoritarian media systems, the media might be privately owned but have only limited freedom to criticize government.
▪ In Doncaster over Christmas, I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government.
lack
▪ For its part, Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of statutory recycling targets.
▪ Inevitably the reality of photography was criticized for its lack of style.
▪ The report criticizes a lack of co-ordination on sea defences.
▪ He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination - surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past.
▪ They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind.
▪ They criticized the lack of an automatic shut-off mechanism in the cooling system.
▪ He has criticized the lack of internal democracy in the party, founded in 1990 by former Environment Minister Brice Lalonde.
leader
▪ Alexander I.. Lebed took center stage to criticize the ailing leader and cast himself as heir apparent.
party
▪ Democrats have criticized the Republican Party for financing of the cable deal.
▪ The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party.
▪ Political balance can not be achieved by criticizing one party during the mid-term of a parliament and another at election time.
plan
▪ Environmentalists have criticized the plan as naive.
▪ George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.
▪ Therefore it would be rash to pretend to criticize community care plans.
▪ Several members of Congress have already criticized the plan.
▪ They criticized his flat tax plan because it would tax wages but not investments.
policy
▪ And some intellectuals have criticized official policy without suffering repercussions.
▪ Can a teacher be dismissed for publicly criticizing school policy?
▪ Can an underground newspaper be prohibited from criticizing school policies?
▪ Dole may receive some help from the national Republican Party, which is already planning to run ads criticizing Clinton administration policies.
president
▪ They criticized the president for punishing both the innocent and the guilty and for exacting such harsh punishment.
▪ Jesse Jackson have criticized the president for signing the welfare act.
proposal
▪ The next morning, Gandhi criticized the Sapru proposal.
report
▪ On receiving it you use this report to criticize the employee's work.
▪ The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee's punished.
▪ While based upon an extensive data base and significant historical research, this Rand report has been criticized as being too pessimistic.
▪ Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.
▪ The current spate of reports on the schools criticizes parents for not involving themselves in the education of their children.
▪ The report also criticized the department for refusing to accept that new roads generate more traffic.
▪ The report also criticizes Nirex for seeking to rush through its proposals without proper public consultation and expert examination.
s
▪ MelAmid is a term used to criticize some one s capabilities or competence.
work
▪ Often he made them criticize each other's work.
▪ But Brown, who spent more on travel than any of his predecessors, was also criticized for his overseas work.
▪ On receiving it you use this report to criticize the employee's work.
▪ I work very hard and put in long hours, but my direct supervisor is constantly criticizing my work.
▪ What have I been criticized for at work?
▪ In essence, if she criticizes your work, she is criticizing herself.
▪ All that he could do was criticize the assembly's work from the outside.
▪ The three members contributed regular essays, or else original compositions, and criticized one another's work at group meetings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
roundly condemn/criticize etc
▪ And every year the report's findings are roundly condemned by Tory politicians for being excessively negative.
▪ Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.
▪ Such inequality was roundly condemned by the Old Testament prophets.
▪ The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized.
▪ Under normal circumstances that would be a thoroughly anti-democratic development, to be roundly condemned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I meet with several other artists and we criticize each other's work.
▪ It's easy to criticize, but managing a football team can be an extremely difficult job.
▪ Jackson declined to criticize his opponent, choosing instead to focus on his own message.
▪ People are always criticizing the Royal family, but I think they do a good job.
▪ Stop criticizing my driving!
▪ The President criticized the proposal as expensive and impractical.
▪ The United Nations was criticized for failing to react sooner to the crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In this chapter, the inductivist account of science will be criticized by casting doubt on the third of these assumptions.
▪ It was not undertaken to support, refute or criticize contemporary urban and regional theory.
▪ Moreover, the students are culturally expected to criticize not only the university itself but the entire society.
▪ She would never have thought of criticizing his hardness.
▪ The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party.
▪ Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.