hypercritical of colloquial speech. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
If I come out of the gate as some kind of hypercritical harpy, and people think my work stinks, my career's over before it even began. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Chairs] Reference
Perry always says I shouldn't be so hypercritical. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Mechanica]
It is so phony and hypercritical it makes me SICK!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Sanford e-mail: I've 'crossed lines I never would have imagined'] Reference
Rebecca MacKinnon is just hypercritical and hypocritical. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » China: Dialogue with Anti-CNN] Reference
I can tell you right now that I'm hypercritical of myself. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE YOU ENTER THAT FICTION CONTEST: Mir's Non-Comprehensive Tour of Trouble Spot Tip-Offs] Reference
Why the hypercritical and condescending reactions to Caroline?. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Word: The Kennedy ‘Campaign’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Remember, response time in a situation like this is hypercritical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2008] Reference
I am going to be hypercritical of the deserves-no-sympathy Ivanka. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
"'Tis rude to laugh" is another precept of the hypercritical mother. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
I don't think I'm being hypercritical over how bad it looks, really. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday etc.] Reference
It showed HRW's commitment to human rights is hollow and hypercritical. From Wordnik.com. [New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela] Reference
Are we, one wonders, being not only hypocritical but hypercritical here?. From Wordnik.com. [Assvertising: My Uterus Ain't a Keg Edition] Reference
"The Fall: Influential, arrogant, accurately hypercritical of rock apathy". From Wordnik.com. [Dragnet] Reference
Skeptics are said to be rigid, dogmatic, hypercritical, and closed-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Shermer: The Power of Positive Skepticism: A Reply to Deepak Chopra] Reference
Maybe Mom is hypercritical or self-involved and Dad doesn't know how to step in. From Wordnik.com. [Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW: Daughters Who Choose Mean Boyfriends: Are They Yearning for Daddy's Love?] Reference
This is not hypercritical, but is in accordance with the knowledge we have to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Nina dumped him and, without a secret life, Andy became demanding and hypercritical. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
And the players sometimes resent fans as hypercritical louts with a beer in each fist. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - The great fan divide] Reference
I'm a jaded animator who is hypercritical about most movies, especially animated ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Inevitable "Too Many?" Question] Reference
Sounds like a bunch of self-righteous, hypercritical, overwrought, armchair trackers to me. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Pawlenty Under Gun Over Wounded Buck] Reference
You're always dealing with something hypercritical, like an infestation of Japanese beetles. From Wordnik.com. [King of Bionic Ag Uses Turbocharged Seeds, Precision Chemistry, and a Little TLC] Reference
But it was no mere negative or hypercritical interest that led him on and induced him to write. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
At the time NME called the band: "Influential, arrogant, accurately hypercritical of rock apathy". From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - the computer hamlets, inefficient in their cock-ups, are not something to dance past.] Reference
After that great lie, I'm sorry any hypercritical review of everything you say is your own fault. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Manager Hints Clinton Camp Has "Pattern" Of Questioning Obama's Patriotism] Reference
They have been led to be hypercritical to such an extent that they become morbidly introspective. From Wordnik.com. [Courtship After Marriage] Reference
And, here, the vice president comes on, just sort of like gangbusters, as hypercritical of people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2007] Reference
Following that, the examiners sifted the evidence in a hypercritical way and emphasized the weak places. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
It savors a little of the hypercritical spirit that is very well illustrated by an anecdote of the witty. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Mr. Stevens deprecated a disposition among his friends to be hypercritical in relation to mere verbal details. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
They are often hypercritical of others and believe that other people are beneath them in both ability and talent. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Haisha: Get Real: Unmasking the 8 Imposters That Hinder Your Success] Reference
"Half the books in this library are not worth reading," said a sour-visaged, hypercritical, novel-satiated woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
What we don't get is that, under the circumstances, there's not much difference between being hypercritical and hypocritical. From Wordnik.com. [Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul] Reference
Stefan Byrd, taking in the scene as he balanced a precarious way to his seat, felt every hypercritical sense rising in revolt. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
She lingered at her toilet, grew hypercritical in articles of taste, and found defects in beauty without the shadow of a blemish. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
It is obvious, but hypercritical, to complain that in these artless tales the kindness shown to the beasts is illogically one-sided!. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Consequently the ordinary binder is rarely called upon to pay those minute attentions to detail demanded by a hypercritical collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
To get in, applicants must audition in front of the staff's hypercritical eyes; "Six Feet Under" star Griffiths, for one, didn't make it. From Wordnik.com. [THE AUSSIES TAKE HOLLYWOOD] Reference
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