Verb (used with object) : to criticize three novels in one review.    From Dictionary.com. 

And the only country we ever criticise is you-know-who.    From Wordnik.com.  [UN Conference on Racism "a triumph"] Reference

His introduction of "fair use" considerations in connection with the right to criticise is a complete distration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The one thing about the woman that I can find to criticise is that she went anywhere near a football player. any code, any country.    From Wordnik.com.  [more on Johns - how women in the media respond] Reference

Understand what you 'criticise' first before asking such questions or you'll just sound like a fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven-Year WMAP Results: No, They're NOT Anomalies | Universe Today] Reference

Dictionary. app has criticised my spelling of 'criticise' for the last time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet TW] Reference

He is expected to "criticise" in an hour the work of a lifetime of struggle and effort and knowledge and thought and feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference

Do not find fault, though you may gently criticise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

We criticise not the dress but address of the speaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

"Before people criticise, they should come and see it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalan town fears bullfighting ban will extinguish its fire bulls] Reference

• Blair declines to criticise the coalition government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference

He also says he does not want to criticise David Cameron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference

Men admired her; the women sought some point to criticise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is painful to criticise Hood's conduct of this campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

For example, I thought Blair would criticise Donald Rumsfeld.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference

York as if he had lived there always, and found much to criticise in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

We may criticise them on the grounds of their threat to press freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would there be a viable newspaper industry without Rupert Murdoch?] Reference

Sparks had been heard to criticise the pomps and vanities exhibited at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

"Oh, I do not mean to criticise you personally," Zenith made haste to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

Marr said many people on the left would be "aghast" to hear him criticise FoI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference

You like a girl who does not criticise unjustly, nor gossip about her friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

"Mademoiselle, I am listening; compose the plan of campaign, and I will criticise it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I don't profess to know that much about it to criticise people – I'd find that tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Flintoff: England will win the Ashes without me] Reference

Putting aside the people who criticise, not with a view to mending matters, but because a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Each night I read to my wife what I had written that day, and Mrs. White would criticise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

They criticise the current Labour leadership race for revealing "little insightful engagement".    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour party urged to abandon tribalism] Reference

Common mistake number two: never, ever criticise the children's mother to – or in front of – them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problem solved] Reference

Madame Prune appears to me a highly respectable old lady, in whose past there is nothing to criticise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Monsieur Massinot, whether she was pretty or not, it is no business of yours to criticise the looks of the clients.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Rapper and singer uses appearance at New York reggae concert to criticise actor along with former Fugees bandmate Pras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyclef Jean blasts Sean Penn after Haiti presidency bid failure] Reference

You don't expect a junior minister to openly criticise his government colleagues, but there are issues here to explore.    From Wordnik.com.  [What do you want me to ask Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb?] Reference

It is for opponents, therefore, to controvert the positions I have taken, rather than to criticise what I have omitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Enormous revenues from the provinces were poured into his coffers, and no one dared criticise his manner of spending them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

I could criticise on another count, but taking into consideration time, place, circumstances, and the female intellect, I refrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

But I was in no mood to criticise; I crammed myself, I believe, like some famished wolf, he watching me, in silence, all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

There was but little if anything in the whole campaign, now that it is over, to criticise at all, and nothing to criticise severely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference