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Definition of Overcritical
1. Adjective. Inclined to judge too severely. "The overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
Definition of Overcritical
1. Adjective. Excessively critical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcritical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcritical
Literary usage of Overcritical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2005 Update by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, International Energy Agency (2005)
"... and overcritical steam conditions. The net electrical capacity is 1 050 MWe
with a net thermal efficiency of 45%. • Combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"Through this sacred conventionalism Niebuhr broke fearlessly, and, though at
times overcritical, he struck from the early history of Rome ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1913)
"He was not an admirer of La Mettrie, and seeing in the sarcastic laugh of this
modern Democritus a grin, he condemned in a rather hasty and overcritical ..."
4. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"He is also overcritical, and prone to form opinions of his own concerning securities.
The non-college man is more inclined to look with awe upon his "boss" ..."
5. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"The card in question cannot be held to be non-mail- able, without being overcritical
and extremely punctilious in the choice of language which men may ..."
6. Outcome of the Civil War, 1863-1865 by James Kendall Hosmer (1907)
"... who found Warren overcritical and assuming.1 The case cannot be discussed
here: a court of inquiry, many years later, found nothing wanting in Warren's ..."
7. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... the admiring, not overcritical patriot would be happier than ever was the
Athenian when he looked up at the newly erected Parthenon. ..."
8. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... in the mere faults of its technique — this enthusiast misses the true lessons
of Egyptian art as widely as the overcritical and unsympathetic carper. ..."
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