Criticism vs Reprimanded - What's the difference?
criticism | reprimanded |
The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
* {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Thomas Hardy, title=Far From the Madding Crowd, publisher=Barnes & Noble Classics (2005 publication of 1912 Wessex edition), page=276,
passage=Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the discourse of thought. A close criticism might have detected signs proving that she was intent on the latter alternative.}}
(reprimand)
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
As a noun criticism
is the act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.As a verb reprimanded is
(reprimand).criticism
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(wikipedia criticism)Noun
- The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.
Derived terms
* self-criticism * constructive criticism * destructive criticism * literary criticismReferences
* *reprimanded
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Verb
(head)reprimand
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Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: