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Adjectives (3)
admonitory, reproachful, reproving
adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
Fuzzynyms (11)
abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous
adj. expressing extreme contempt
damnatory, damning
adj. threatening with damnation
Synonyms (13)
faultfinding, captious
adj. tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling
adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"
censorious
adj. harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
hypercritical, overcritical, supercritical
adj. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
vituperative
adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
Antonyms (0)
admonishing
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