Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scrutinizes; one who examines with critical care; a scrutineer. Also spelled
scrutiniser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who scrutinizes.
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- noun one who
scrutinizes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care
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Examples
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Graham was himself a formidable "scrutinizer"; and, famously, a "strong resenter," with intermittent compulsion to test the indulgence of his friends.
Our Man on Capri Cloetta, Yvonne 2000
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With my life turned upside-down -- the scrutinizer become the scrutinized -- buffeted by suspicion and accusation, I turned away, feeling that any revisiting of the fundraiser story would be tainted by questioning of my motives in doing so.
Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2010
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With my life turned upside-down -- the scrutinizer become the scrutinized -- buffeted by suspicion and accusation, I turned away, feeling that any revisiting of the fundraiser story would be tainted by questioning of my motives in doing so.
Mayhill Fowler: Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2010
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With my life turned upside-down -- the scrutinizer become the scrutinized -- buffeted by suspicion and accusation, I turned away, feeling that any revisiting of the fundraiser story would be tainted by questioning of my motives in doing so.
Mayhill Fowler: Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2009
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Mr. Remnick mingled with his colleagues for a few minutes before heading up to the 18th-floor business offices to give an afternoon of interviews, and to face the pressure of moving from being the scrutinizer to the scrutinized.
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The upside-down scrutinizer regarded Flinx with comical seriousness.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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The upside‑down scrutinizer regarded Flinx with comical seriousness.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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He was too close a scrutinizer of the part and not enough of an observer of the whole for good portraiture.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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Perhaps a close scrutinizer of countenances might have detected some resemblance -- a family one -- between him and his three companions.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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He was the lynx-eyed scrutinizer of the conduct of the Judges; the honest censor of the
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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