hypercriticizev.
a. transitive. To criticize excessively or unduly.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > excessively
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1812 Religionism 55 What! hypercriticise the dead! for shame!
b. intransitive. To be hypercritical.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (intransitive)] > excessively
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1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 688 Those who hypercriticised on the awkward terminations of some of his plots.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 406 I have no desire to hypercriticise, or to see more in our poet than he himself intended.
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