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# criticism

«criticism» in Mova's school dictionary: **saying what is wrong or bad about someone or something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (criticism, uncountable; a criticism, criticisms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Criticism is saying what is wrong or bad about someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#m1)

2) A criticism is one point about what is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#m2)

3) (formal) Judging books, art or music: literary criticism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school (constructive criticism helps you improve), in news (the plan faced criticism), in books and film reviews.

### examples

- She took the criticism well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x1)
- Constructive criticism helps you learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x2)
- The new rule got a lot of criticism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x3)
- My only criticism is that the story was too short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x4)
- Teachers give criticism kindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x5)
- The film received good and bad criticism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x6)
- Aphrodite alone defied his criticism, for, to his great chagrin, he could find no fault with her perfect form.[50] [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/#x7)

### note

Spelling: critic + ism. Verb: criticise (UK) / criticize (US). Criticism is not always nasty: «constructive criticism» means helpful advice.

### In the corpora

- [People argue about where fair criticism of Israel's government ends and antisemitism begins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/27-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «criticism» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/criticism/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.