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• v  find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
  The paper criticized the new movie
• v  act as a critic
  Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either

• A teacher in France is the latest to face death threats for daring to criticize the religion and its prophet's emphasis on violence.
• CON: Not well known outside Thailand, but inside Thailand it remains a crime to insult or merely criticize him in any way, though in a 2005 speech the King announced that he was .
• President Bush, who can read a Nielsen rating as well as an opinion poll, declined to criticize "a very popular television show.

• knock
• criticise
• pick apart

• praise

News & Articles

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• ‘The Dispensable Nation’ and ‘Foreign Policy Begins at Home’
  Two foreign policy figures criticize, from differing directions, President Obama’s program.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Rights groups criticize Iran for pre-election harassment
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Human rights groups have criticized Iran for curbing dissidents and journalists before Friday's presidential poll, the first since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election ignited popular fury in 2009. From the disqualification of high-profile candidates to controls on campaigning and televised debates, the authorities have done all they can to prevent any repeat of the ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Snowden’s U.S. hacking claim captures Chinese attention
  The allegations line up with arguments by Beijing that the U.S. has little standing to criticize China
  June 13, 2013 - Washington Post

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington Post
  We continue to object to, and criticize, actions by Russia which we believe are wrong. At the top of the list is the invasion and occupation of Georgia,she said.
• Joe Biden in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  They are in fact not able to do anything remotely like they were in the past,Biden said of al Qaeda. "They are on the run. I don't know where Dick Cheney has been. Look, it's one thing, again, to criticize. It's another thing to sort of...
• Keith Urban in RealityTVWebsite.com
  Sometimes it takes our Congress awhile to get its budget passed. Nevertheless some members of Congress decided the best way to encourage progress in Baghdad was to criticize and threaten Iraq's leaders while they're trying to work out their... President Bush http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh0u2JMmcpgHHAEOKNoPb27FyIcg FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342126,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGBb6tQSl9j096-HbTy_01-rXu34A Mar 27, 2008 23638 31636 critter David (Hill) sent me this furry little NASCAR-loving gopher," said Urban. "How could you turn the critter down? I immediately went to my drum machine, then to my guitar, back to my drum machine and on to my banjo and it wasn't long before I...