Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Excessively critical; captious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively or captiously critical; judging adversely from trivial or irrelevant considerations; unduly finical or unjustly severe in judgment.
- Excessively exacting or scrupulous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
- adjective Excessively nice or exact.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Meticulously or excessively
critical .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inclined to judge too severely
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Examples
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Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents.
Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent 2010
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If I come out of the gate as some kind of hypercritical harpy, and people think my work stinks, my career's over before it even began.
Flying Chairs 2006
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Faced with an audience of hypercritical opera fans, Fillion's infamous set of planks known as "the monster" has drawn plenty of criticism.
George Heymont: Totem -- An Artistic Triumph for Cirque du Soleil George Heymont 2011
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People suffering from the Lake Wobegon Effect are hypocritical and hypercritical.
John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban John B. Townsend II 2011
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This is awards season and we all need our rest so we can come up with witty, hypercritical things to say about the dresses that far more famous and attractive people get to wear on red carpets.
Golden Globes 2011: Your lingering questions answered Jen Chaney 2011
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You love the fact that an extensive and excessive vetting process provides the media and yourselves with little tidbits on which to latch your lamprey-like hypercritical mouths.
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People suffering from the Lake Wobegon Effect are hypocritical and hypercritical.
John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban John B. Townsend II 2011
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As a singer, I'm always hypercritical of other singers (and myself, too - perhaps even more), so it takes a hell of a lot to impress me.
Put David Tennant's Well Worn Lips To Use rabid1st 2009
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Tom Meltzer Shortcuts, G2, 26 May is hypercritical and probably doesn't spend much time in kitchens.
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Party loyalty is dividing this country and turning us into hypercritical idiots who can't focus on what's important.
slumry commented on the word hypercritical
meticulously critical; perhaps quibbling
July 17, 2007