critique
verbEtymology Unadapted borrowing from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”), feminine of criticus (“critical”); see critic.
1
To review something; to criticize.
- I want you to critique this new idea of mine.
- Newly declassified documents from the FBI reveal how the US federal agency under J Edgar Hoover monitored the activities of dozens of prominent African American writers for decades, devoting thousands of pages to detailing their activities and critiquing their work.2015 February 9, Alison Flood, “FBI monitored and critiqued African American writers for decades”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
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- While many commented on the sweet nature of the video, others were quick to critique her parenting choice, with one saying: "Giving food like this to a child is child abuse."2017 April 15, “Kelly Clarkson accused of 'child abuse' for feeding two-year-old daughter Nutella”, in Independent.ie, retrieved 18 May 2021:
- On Tuesday, in what was unquestionably the most quintessential MSNBC moment I caught this week, a protester heckled correspondent Katy Tur for mentioning looting and she conceded that he was right to critique the media’s fascination with that aspect of recent events.2020 June 5, Judy Berman, “Where You Watch George Floyd Protests Matters. Here’s Why.”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
- But as this quartet of women filmmakers make new contributions to a very old genre, they’re united […] in critiquing the frontier illusion itself, the fantasy that fleeing toward the next horizon offers riches as well as freedom from the waste and damage left behind.2021 April 19, Jordan Kisner, “The Western Rides Again”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten critiqued standardized testing Thursday – and specifically cited the racial makeup of heavily Asian Stuyvesant High School as an example of what’s wrong with the system.2021 May 13, Selim Algar, “Teachers union chief cites Stuyvesant HS in ripping standardized testing”, in New York Post, retrieved 18 May 2021:
- Derived terms
- anticritique, autocritique, countercritique, critiquable, metacritique, recritique, self-critique, uncritiqued