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All hypercritic synonyms

hy·per·crit·ic
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noun hypercritic

  • carper — to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
  • zapper — to kill or shoot.
  • maligner — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
  • muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
  • defame — If someone defames another person or thing, they say bad and untrue things about them.
  • disparager — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
  • scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
  • slanderer — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • worrier — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • nagger — nag1 (def 5).
  • vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
  • niggler — to criticize, especially constantly or repeatedly, in a peevish or petty way; carp: to niggle about the fine points of interpretation; preferring to niggle rather than take steps to correct a situation.
  • doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
  • quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
  • caviler — a person who cavils
  • censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
  • attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
  • complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • aristarch — a severe critic.
  • be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
  • blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
  • censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
  • disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
  • fretter — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
  • pan — an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
  • reviler — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
  • sidewalk superintendent — a bystander who watches the building, demolition, repair, or other work being done at a construction site.
  • nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
  • faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • knocker — a person or thing that knocks.
  • criticizer — to censure or find fault with.
  • detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
  • attacker — You can refer to a person who attacks someone as their attacker.
  • defamer — One who defames.
  • disapprover — One who disapproves.
  • disputer — One who disputes.
  • critic — A critic is a person who writes about and expresses opinions about things such as books, films, music, or art.
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