Criticar in english
To criticize
pronunciation: tukrɪtɪsaɪz part of speech: none
pronunciation: tukrɪtɪsaɪz part of speech: none
In gestures
criticar = come under + criticism ; condemn ; criticise [criticize, -USA] ; decry ; find + fault with ; put + Alguien + down ; take + Nombre + to task ; deprecate ; castigate ; speak against ; chide ; censure ; berate ; critique ; bash ; raise + criticism ; come under + attack ; pick on ; go to + bat against ; chastise ; carp ; damn ; recreminate ; reprove ; reproach ; single out for + criticism ; slam ; take + a swat at ; chew + Nombre + up ; roast ; give + Nombre + a good roasting ; take + pot shots at ; talk + shit behind + Posesivo + back ; tar ; inveigh against ; bitch ; speak out against ; run + Nombre + down ; pick + holes in ; lace into ; point + (a/the) finger(s) at ; pillory ; flay ; cast + reflections on ; asperse ; dump on ; give + Nombre + a bad rap ; get + a bad rap.
Example: In the 2nd period, 1912-1933, the methods and direction of the movement came under criticism from socialists and educationalists, and a heated debate ensued.Example: It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.Example: AACR2 has been criticised on the grounds that it does not identify the cataloguing unit to which the rules refer.Example: Dick decried the feeling among some scholarly publishers that there is no link between scholarly researchers, publishers, and the library.Example: I will add that since I have been working with the access LC provides to materials on women, a basic fault that I have found with LC subject cataloging is the absence of specificity.Example: 'Specifically, I'm told you delight in putting down the professional'.Example: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.Example: In these instances, it is important to avoid putting one's colleagues in another unit on the defensive or deprecating another unit to a patron.Example: In his report, one of the few really inspiring documents to have come out of librarianship, McColvin castigated the standards of cataloguing and classification he found.Example: As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.Example: Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.Example: This agreement must build in incentives to participating libraries as well as methods of censuring those participants which do not fulfil their obligations to the other participating libraries in the network = This agreement must build in incentives to participating libraries as well as methods of censuring those participants which do not fulfil their obligations to the other participating libraries in the network.Example: Unfortunately, many of the writers are simply berating the current situation, holding to rather ancient models of mass culture.Example: This paper critiques the jurisprudential assumptions upon which legal resources are created, materials are collected, and research practices are justified.Example: Newspapers took advantage of the accident to attack or 'bash' the nuclear industry or nuclear power in general.Example: The author raises some criticisms of the international standard ISO 2709.Example: This bipartite approach has recently come under heavy attack.Example: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.Example: The article has the title 'The minority press goes to bat against segregated baseball'.Example: The profession should cease practising the amateurism for which it chastises employers who have untrained persons trying to function as librarians.Example: You who carped that the 007 films had devolved into a catalog of fresh gadgets and stale puns, eat crow.Example: The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.Example: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: 'Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate'.Example: The person reproving his friend must understand that before he can reprove someone else, he must first reprove himself.Example: The Governor, it is learnt, sternly reproached the party for putting the public to inconvenience for the last two days.Example: Though what exactly constitutes moral decay is debatable, one group traditionally has been singled out for criticism, namely young people.Example: Britain's top cop was today slammed for leaving three white detectives 'hanging out to dry' after they were wrongly accused of racism.Example: I get pretty tired of ignorant people taking swats at the Catholic religion for 'worshiping statues'.Example: A war of words went up when Jewish zealots redacted out this or that word or phrase in order to deny Joshua, and the Christians chewed them up for it.Example: The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.Example: What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.Example: The film also takes pot shots at the media and the political system in the country.Example: If you're talking shit behind her back, how would I know you're not talking shit about me either?.Example: The president hasn't 'abandoned the center' -- but that won't stop critics from tarring him for it.Example: The book closes with an epilogue in which Maudlin inveighs against metaphysical debates based on intuitions about what is and is not possible.Example: Nobody bitched, because there was nothing to bitch about.Example: Such restraint creates a ridiculous and pathetic situation in which librarians refuse to speak out against, or work to defeat legislation destructive to libraries such as California's Propositions.Example: I have read criticisms of her work which run her down for the very things that make her books popular and effective.Example: This week the frontline blogosphere has been picking holes in Government policy and wondering whether Ministers are reckless or are pushing a hidden agenda.Example: If a cop or prosecutor treated you like they treat you a judge would lace into them for wielding their power maliciously.Example: It is easy to point the fingers at the refs.Example: Democratic leaders are pillorying Republicans as negotiations are deadlocked over raising money for infrastructure spending.Example: Netizens have called it disgusting and flayed him for glamourising rape.Example: Those who flaunt their affluence cast reflections on all who live prudently.Example: They see themselves unjustly aspersed, and vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked.Example: Not that China is in any way perfect, and it is important to bring out the bad so that things can change, but he dumps on everything.Example: They give him a bad rap but he's is a very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country.Example: Trans and saturated fats get a bad rap because they raise your cholesterol.more:
» criticar a = fulminate about ; level + criticism at ; talk + shit about ; take + a shot at ; take + a dig at ; have + a dig at .
Example: In his latest book Wilson Follett fulminates for two pages about librarians imposing these ridiculous distorted headings on the public. Example: As is the way with these things there were two conflicting criticisms levelled at the joint code. Example: If you're talking shit behind her back, how would I know you're not talking shit about me either?. Example: The singer made this frank admission during a radio interview and even appeared to take a shot at her fellow panelist Nicki. Example: She has been getting a lot of criticism about her weight and now the latest one to take a dig at her is actor Kamaal who has called her 'a fat aunty'. Example: My best friend floored me recently when casually revealed that women are constantly having a dig at her for deciding not to have children.» criticar a Alguien a sus espaldas = cut + Nombre + up + behind + Posesivo + back .
Example: There's more to it than that - he becomes vicious, cutting people up behind their backs if they cross him in any way.» criticar duramente a Alguien = tear + Nombre + (in)to shreds .
Example: I can't get over how librarians tear their colleagues to shreds when they're together.» criticar duramente = slate ; flail away at ; zing .
Example: Horror fiction has been slated by book reviewers and a similar prejudice among librarians could explain its under-representation in library stocks. Example: His novels flailed away at ignorance and indecency and his editorials were partisan, personal, fervent, and emotional. Example: At his speech Saturday night he zinged the media and the field of presidential contenders before dropping the mic and walking off stage.» criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas .
Example: One day Balzac trampled on Hernandez's ideas for reviving the use of bookmobiles.» criticarlo todo = pick + holes in everything .
Example: She appears to be picking holes in everything that I do, and it is hard because I am trying to be a loving sister towards her.» criticar públicamente = pillory .
Example: Democratic leaders are pillorying Republicans as negotiations are deadlocked over raising money for infrastructure spending.» ser criticado = come under + fire ; cause + criticism ; be under fire .
Example: At the other extreme, the grand tradition has come under fire from two franc-tireurs FN Hatt and DE Gerard. Example: When Charles and Diana got married the Australian royal stamp had the couple facing away from each other, which caused much criticism. Example: Cameron is under fire again for swanning off to Ibiza whilst the UK is supposedly facing a terror crisis.