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Example sentences for "criticized"

Lexicographically close words:
criticises; criticising; criticism; criticisms; criticize; criticizes; criticizing; critick; criticks; critico
  1. Garrick having criticized this line, Johnson remarked, "Sir, Garrick is a prosaical rogue.

  2. It criticized the Hierarchy with as much independence as it would have criticized a local Board of Guardians; and in the end it won and held the enthusiastic support of the best elements in Irish life.

  3. If the Parliamentary Party was charged with futility and lack of dignity, other Irish movements were criticized with a similar candour.

  4. Emerson criticized Carlyle because Carlyle was not Emerson, just as Carlyle criticized Emerson because he was not Carlyle.

  5. He has been severely criticized for having in Au Lion d'Androclès assigned to a single epoch events and personages which are really separated by centuries.

  6. The many variations on the same theme in Aymerillot may be criticized as tedious, but there underlies them the artistic purpose of intensifying the reader's sense of the cowardice of the nobles by an accumulation of examples.

  7. Northern anti-slavery men criticized the act as the entering wedge for another great surrender to the enemy.

  8. Nevertheless, being critical, he criticized the Good Man, to my grief and amazement.

  9. He was sensitive and angry when the old kings of the old kingdoms criticized his new kingdom.

  10. Yet when one woman escapes the tendency and appears with a normal length of femur and tibia, a normal height of hip and shoulder, she is criticized and called awkward by her squatty sisters!

  11. The scientifically elaborated and criticized concepts are always in the very slight minority.

  12. Since John Smith had shown strong leadership qualities, had frequently criticized the management of the ships, and had exerted much influence on the voyage to America, he had aroused jealousy on the part of some of the other voyagers.

  13. Although it has been criticized for its extreme length and detailedness, this history is a scholarly, authoritative source still used by researchers for knowledge of this period of history.

  14. He first criticized the parsons for trying to take advantage of the scarcity of the tobacco which caused its extraordinarily high price.

  15. Since this method had been commonly used by the Negroes directly after their emancipation, this law was criticized by some individuals as discriminatory toward the Negroes and contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.

  16. For the fact that while Stahl criticized and denied, he yet understood, was a strong incentive to talk.

  17. If he criticized at all it was with phrases like "The man's a poet after all!

  18. Boccaccio's poetry has been severely criticized by his countrymen, and most severely by the author himself.

  19. Blair belonged to the "moderate" or latitudinarian party, and his Sermons have been criticized as wanting in doctrinal definiteness.

  20. For the former the moral standards of their particular age and country tend to have an absolute and unconditional worth, which must not be criticized or questioned.

  21. There are obviously morbid and perverted consciences; but if conscience itself is the ultimate authority, and is not to be justified and criticized by some deeper test, what right have we to call any of its manifestations morbid or perverted?

  22. He criticized them in proof, and gave them his warm commendation.

  23. These measures, though severely criticized by the Opposition, were introduced to remedy obvious, and in some cases terrible social evils.

  24. In modern times it has been more criticized than read.

  25. The school program was especially sharply criticized by the Russian sectarian peasants at Glendale, Arizona.

  26. Gay has read and criticized the manuscripts.

  27. The settlers who have failed owing to such causes might be criticized for their poor judgment in selecting the land, but the land dealers might equally be criticized for not warning the settlers of the difficulties before they buy the land.

  28. When foreigners criticized England or the English he was up in arms in a moment.

  29. The new front of Buckingham Palace is severely criticized in March, 1849: its only beauty is that of hiding the remainder of the building like "a clean front put on to make the best of an indifferent shirt.

  30. Yet even when the Duke was criticized most severely as a politician, the recognition of his greatness was not denied.

  31. Our diplomacy has been severely criticized in connection with Near Eastern affairs in 1915; nor will any one maintain that it was successful, judged by results.

  32. This act of Austria was severely criticized by the neutral Powers, which had been seeking to allay the trouble.

  33. I know I have been criticized for making too great speed under bad weather conditions, but I have not wilfully endangered the lives of the passengers.

  34. He usually sent them to his literary friends to be read and criticized before allowing them to be printed in the current Hebrew periodicals.

  35. On relations with Central Asia and the West see Ho Chien-min and Hsiang Ta, whose classical studies on Ch'ang-an city life have recently been strongly criticized by Chinese scholars.

  36. Most of the authors of these librettos remained unknown: they used pseudonyms, partly because playwriting was not an occupation that befitted a scholar, and partly because in these works they criticized the conditions of their day.

  37. Finally, some reformers criticized conservatism purely on the basis of Chinese thought.

  38. Thackeray gives the best definition of all, though his own manners were harshly criticized by some of his contemporaries.

  39. He had never met this man, but the papers had criticized him severely, and our friend was prepared to encounter a mean and churlish creature.

  40. The report especially criticized General Sir John Eccles Nixon, the former commander of the British forces in Mesopotamia, who had urged the expedition, in spite of the objection of General Townshend.

  41. The substance of the report was, that while the expedition was justifiable from a political point of view, it was undertaken with insufficient forces and inadequate preparation, and it sharply criticized those that were responsible.

  42. The German Loan Bureaus were criticized at the beginning of the war, and German figures show that only about ten percent.

  43. Yet it by no means criticized all the features of the bill.

  44. Coffee came in at the moment, and Augusta criticized the strength of it, which made a diversion, during which Bertha slipped out of the room, with a face replete with mischievous exultation.


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