Reprimanded vs Criticized - What's the difference?
reprimanded | criticized |
(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.
(criticize)
to find fault (with something)
to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults
As verbs the difference between reprimanded and criticized
is that reprimanded is (reprimand) while criticized is (criticize).reprimanded
English
Verb
(head)reprimand
English
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: