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• s  inclined to judge too severely
  the overcritical teacher can discourage originality

• Meany was just a bit overcritical.
• Wary of offending the couturiers, who have been known to exclude overcritical reporters or banish them to back-row seats, most of the well-tamed fashion writers were careful to .
• Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan dramaon the wild .

• hypercritical

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• Geoffrey Robertson in guardian.co.uk
  Geoffrey Robertson QC, whose latest book The Tyrannicide Brief is published by Random House US and who was under terrorist threat whilst acting for Rushdie, said: "We can't be overcritical of American publishers for cowering under terrorist threats....
• Dean Ashton in Times Online
  I was reasonably pleased,Ashton said. "I probably could have done a little bit better and there were a few touches and passes that could have gone better, but that's being overcritical. Hopefully I've done enough to impress for the next...