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hypercritical

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[ UK /hˌa‍ɪpəkɹˈɪtɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈkɹɪtɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inclined to judge too severely
    hypercritical of colloquial speech
    the overcritical teacher can discourage originality

How To Use hypercritical In A Sentence

  • You love the fact that an extensive and excessive vetting process provides the media and yourselves with little tidbits on which to latch your lamprey-like hypercritical mouths. Clinton again rips into vetting process
  • And what is permissible in the hypercritical eyes of other parents? Times, Sunday Times
  • But Johnson thinks citizens are being hypercritical of the police to deflect attention from themselves.
  • I read in one of your answers how it only makes things worse to be hypercritical.
  • As we grow increasingly self-righteous and hypercritical, we stumble into the ‘martyr trap.’
  • With the culture awash with Barbie doll ideals of beauty, adolescent girls take a hypercritical look at their developing bodies and judge themselves to be too short, too tall, too fat, too busty, too plain, etc.
  • Women who felt abandoned by their fathers are likely to choose emotionally unavailable husbands, for example, and men raised by hypercritical moms will be drawn to wives who pick on them, he says.
  • People suffering from the Lake Wobegon Effect are hypocritical and hypercritical. John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban
  • A Gemini Moon also tends to make these natives hypercritical.
  • Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents. Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent
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