Criticise - English meaning

verb

Call or bring (someone) before a court to answer a criminal charge.

Usage examples:

Her sister was arraigned on charges of attempted murder

verb

To formally accuse someone of a particular crime in a court of law and to ask the accused to state guilt or innocence

Usage examples:

He was arraigned on a robbery charge., they pleaded not guilty at their arraignment.

verb

Take aggressive military action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force.

Usage examples:

In february the germans attacked verdun

noun

An aggressive and violent act against a person or place.

Usage examples:

He was killed in an attack on a checkpoint

verb

An offensive against an enemy

noun

A criticism, suggestion, or remark that damages another person's reputation

Usage examples:

She shrugs off the aspersions as an inevitable part of public life., his opponents cast aspersions …

verb

Express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement.

Usage examples:

The company was heavily censured by inspectors from the department of trade

noun

The formal expression of severe disapproval.

Usage examples:

Two mps were singled out for censure

verb

Express complete disapproval of; censure.

Usage examples:

Most leaders roundly condemned the attack

verb

To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons

Usage examples:

The movie was condemned for glorifying violence., those who remember the past are not condemned to …

verb

Criticize unfairly; disparage.

Usage examples:

Doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country

verb

To say that someone or something is not good or important

verb

Publicly declare to be wrong or evil.

Usage examples:

The assembly denounced the use of violence

verb

To criticize someone or something strongly and publicly

Usage examples:

The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate.

verb

To criticize something or someone strongly and publicly

Usage examples:

The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides., he angrily denounced the decisio…

verb

Regard or represent as being of little worth.

Usage examples:

He never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors

verb

To criticize someone or something in a way that shows a lack of respect

Usage examples:

He disparages his business competitors, saying they are all a bunch of amateurs compared to him., m…

phrase

To criticize someone or something, especially without good reasons

Usage examples:

He's always finding fault with my work., she's a nightmare to have as a guest - she finds fault wit…

verb

Criticize (someone or something) harshly.

Usage examples:

They lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth

verb

To criticize someone or something severely

Usage examples:

His first novel was lambasted by the critics.

noun

A wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public abuse.

Usage examples:

The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offen…

verb

Put (someone) in a pillory.

verb

To severely criticize someone, especially in a public way

Usage examples:

Although regularly pilloried by the press as an obnoxious loudmouth, he is, nonetheless, an effecti…

idiom

To say a person or thing is stupid and not worth anything

Usage examples:

Critics of the president have been pouring scorn on the plan ever since it was first proposed.