Thesaurus / hyper-critical
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synonyms for hyper-critical
- annoyed
- contentious
- exasperated
- fractious
- petulant
- prickly
- resentful
- surly
- testy
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
- belittling
- biting
- carping
- censuring
- condemning
- cursing
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- harsh
- hypercritical
- mean
- nasty
- sarcastic
- satirical
- dizzy
- fastidious
- fussy
- queasy
- annoyed
- captious
- delicate
- disgusted
- exacting
- hypercritical
- mincing
- particular
- prim
- prudish
- puritanical
- qualmish
- queer
- scrupulous
- shaky
- sick
- sickly
- sick to one's stomach
- strait-laced
- unsettled
- upset
- vertiginous
- contemptuous
- disdainful
- sneering
- arrogant
- cynical
- egotistic
- haughty
- hypercritical
- insolent
- overbearing
- snooty
- supercilious
- acrimonious
- cantankerous
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- contrary
- crabby
- cross
- demanding
- deprecating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- fault-finding
- finicky
- hypercritical
- irritable
- nagging
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- sarcastic
- severe
- testy
- touchy
- bellyaching
- caviling
- criticizing
- disparaging
- griping
- grousing
- grumbling
- kvetching
- moaning
- nagging
- niggling
- quibbling
- whining
- censorious
- critical
- deprecatory
- fault-finding
- grouchy
- hypercritical
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- scathing
- accusatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- chiding
- complaining
- condemnatory
- condemning
- critical
- culpatory
- denouncing
- disapproving
- disparaging
- fault-finding
- hypercritical
- overcritical
- reproaching
- severe
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
- demanding
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
- harsh
- imperious
- onerous
- painstaking
- precise
- rigid
- rigorous
- strict
- stringent
- taxing
- trying
- burdensome
- by the book
- careful
- critical
- difficult
- exigent
- finicky
- fussy
- grievous
- hard
- hypercritical
- nit-picking
- oppressive
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- severe
- stern
- tough
- unsparing
- weighty
- choosy
- discriminating
- exacting
- finicky
- fussy
- squeamish
- captious
- critical
- dainty
- demanding
- difficult
- easily disgusted
- finical
- fussbudgety
- hard to please
- hypercritical
- nice
- nit-picky
- overdelicate
- overnice
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- punctilious
- queasy
- stickling
- captious
- carping
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- hard to please
- hypercritical
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- pettifogging
- quibbling
- carping
- caviling
- censorious
- critical
- demanding
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hair-splitting
- hard to please
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- persnickety
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How to use hyper-critical in a sentence
These are few and verbal, but momentous, and were not made without consultation of many critical authorities and versions.
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NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe critical moralist pauses before the formidable array of the entire social world, civilized and savage.
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSAt this critical moment feet were heard clattering and stumbling up the stair as if in tremendous haste.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEStruck down by a fever the day before the action, he was unable to give his advice at the critical moment.
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