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Example sentences for "criticise"

Lexicographically close words:
criterions; critic; critica; critical; critically; criticised; criticises; criticising; criticism; criticisms
  1. Then if we can criticise the staff here goes!

  2. Again I argued that if Miss Brown had favourites the class had a right to criticise her.

  3. Some of your hearers are agin you; they have come out to criticise you.

  4. You can't criticise the staff," said one.

  5. I shall not attempt, in this address, either to justify or to criticise the name, normative science, under which the doctrines which constitute this division are grouped.

  6. Ignorance of war and of the situation has induced them to criticise and to condemn; and idle words, greedily listened to, and quickly exaggerated, may easily destroy the confidence of the soldiery in the abilities of their leader.

  7. To your face he will never praise you; but he will never laugh at you nor criticise you.

  8. As a private adviser, he will not even directly criticise a plan of which he disapproves, but is apt to suggest a new one in some such guarded language as: 'Perhaps it might be more to your immediate interest to do thus and so.

  9. I should not venture to criticise anything so marvelous now.

  10. Do you remember that when we were children, Norman, you used to criticise my dress?

  11. Do you suppose I should ever have the courage to criticise anything so beautiful?

  12. We should put him in a good light before we criticise him.

  13. I will not criticise your utterances one by one.

  14. I expected to find him in manners and appearance something like our school professors, with a tendency to criticise my slender literary acquirements.

  15. It is hardly reverent, dear, for us to criticise God's plans.

  16. Presently and almost unconsciously I begin to criticise myself and to feel the craving of the artist for form and colour.

  17. He stretched, jumped down from his high stool, strolled about, stopped to criticise here, to praise there, until he saw the colours he needed.

  18. It is a protest against the folly of the Pen in venturing to criticise the Brush.

  19. After the reading, criticise it, and have them repeat it.

  20. The teachers should ask questions on each verse, turn about, and the leader should criticise the questions.

  21. Under war conditions it is always a difficult question to determine how far it is better to obey poor, or even bad, directions or to criticise them in the hope of getting better.

  22. To criticise social institutions in the name of the "Ego," is therefore to abandon the only profitable point of view in the case, i.

  23. We have no desire here to criticise this petty bourgeois Utopia.

  24. I cannot pretend to criticise another man's life, knowing my own," he answered humbly.

  25. But she did not criticise him; her own idle, careless life she found too full of faults to censure another.

  26. It is easy to criticise the lonely white man in Central Africa; to stamp him as brutal, cruel, and wicked.

  27. At one of these meetings, July, 1811, the persons present supposed, from his former reputation for rudeness, that he was there perhaps to criticise derisively their humble manner of worship.

  28. It was true that they had never heard of a nun of their order taking the name of Veronica, but that was not a matter to criticise either.

  29. In Milan her salon was known to be of the opposition, and there gathered all the malcontents, ready to criticise and blame, and wholly refusing their aid in any public matters undertaken under French auspices.

  30. He was indeed the only monarch of our age who was, at the same time, the friend of learning and of virtue, and I trusted that he might correct such things as he found to criticise in my work.

  31. When he tried to suppress the newspapers which dared to criticise his government, and dismissed the Parliament because it supported the Press, his days were numbered.

  32. The Holy Alliance, the main result of the Congress, made the policeman the most important dignitary of the State and held out the most terrible punishment to those who dared criticise a single official act.

  33. Jane had known him well and liked him much, though with sufficient detachment to remember and to criticise his demonstrative manners, his love of instructing others, and other little peculiarities.

  34. He learns to avoid common subjects--subjects, that is, where the world holds itself at liberty to criticise him.

  35. Every man thinks it only due to himself to criticise a friend's new purchases of horses or pictures or wines; if he did not find fault with them he would miss an opportunity of establishing his superior acumen.

  36. The real objection to literary women is that women, with a few notable exceptions, are not yet properly educated to write well, or to criticise well what others write.

  37. It is the part of philosophy to collect and criticise evidence, to formulate and coördinate conceptions, and finally to define in exact terms.

  38. At the opening of this chapter it was maintained that it is a function of philosophy to criticise science through its generating problem, or its self-imposed task viewed as determining its province and selecting its categories.

  39. He would not seek to justify a moral judgment, as would ethics, or to criticise the cogency of thought, as would logic; but only to describe the actual state as he found it.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criticise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.