animadversion
- n harsh criticism or disapproval
- The animadversion is principally upon the misrepresentations in which United States representatives are said to indulge.
- My choicest animadversion is the tradition of ponderous and involved science writing.
- Bryan was dead and at least for the time they as a body declined to enter upon animadversion, but some of them privately compared the Scopes trial, not with the trial in Pilate .