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UK
/hˌaɪpəkɹˈɪtɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈkɹɪtɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈkɹɪtɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
inclined to judge too severely
hypercritical of colloquial speech
the overcritical teacher can discourage originality
How To Use hypercritical In A Sentence
- You can be bored, scared, hypercritical, injured by a mascara wand or half-asleep, and nobody will be any the wiser.
- Why should anyone care if Hollywood occasionally forgets to be hypercritical about American history?
- Tom Meltzer Shortcuts, G2, 26 May is hypercritical and probably doesn't spend much time in kitchens. Letters: Kitchen cabinets
- Their pride, anger, and hypercritical attitude made them far more unclean than the disciples.
- I was really hypercritical and baffled about not knowing that to do with the I way I sounded.
- They are nit-pickers with low emotional intelligence and zero creativity — maladaptive perfectionists, hypercritical passive-aggressives, all-or-nothing thinkers. Times, Sunday Times
- It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
- You sometimes have to force yourself to be nitpicking, faultfinding, caviling, hypercritical. The Fiddler in the Subway
- Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Frank Lloyd Wright
- A perfect game of golf has never been played, but he was hypercritical.