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Critique vs Scrutinise - What's the difference?

critique | scrutinise |

As verbs the difference between critique and scrutinise

is that critique is while scrutinise is to examine something with great care.

critique

English

Noun

(wikipedia critique) (en noun)
  • The art of criticism.
  • An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, author=(Jesse Jackson), title=In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015 citation
  • , passage=I did not always agree with Malcolm X, specifically his critiques of Dr King and of the philosophy of nonviolent resistance. }}
  • * Addison
  • I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal.
  • (obsolete) A critic; one who criticises.
  • * Bishop Lincoln
  • a question among critiques in the ages to come

    Verb

  • (US) To review something.
  • I want you to critique this new idea of mine.

    scrutinise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrutinize

    Verb

    (scrutinis)
  • To examine something with great care.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.