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Adjectives (4)
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admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving
adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
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abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful
adj. expressing extreme contempt
damnatory, damning
adj. threatening with damnation
Synonyms (13)
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captious, faultfinding
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
adj. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
scathing, vituperative
adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
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reproving
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