"criticize" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

criticize verbo

criticize + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 124
criticize one's decision • criticize one's policies • criticize one's actions • criticize one's handling • criticize one's work • ...
verbo + criticize
Kolokacji: 24
criticize for failing • criticized for using • criticized for making • criticized for taking • criticized for allowing • ...
criticize + preposición
Kolokacji: 29
criticize by • criticized for • criticize during • criticize in • criticize over • ...
criticize + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 67
sharply criticize • widely criticized • heavily criticized • strongly criticize • harshly criticized • publicly criticize • severely criticized • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(3) publicly, privately
Kolokacji: 2
(4) severely, sternly
Kolokacji: 2
2. sternly criticize = surowo skrytykuj sternly criticize
  • Sternly criticizing the judge who handled the case, a Federal appeals court yesterday reversed the 1988 racketeering convictions of eight men, including the reputed former head of the Genovese crime family.
  • Nevertheless, Mr. Gorbachev showed no inclination to give in, sternly criticizing wrongheaded "command and pressure" management techniques.
  • Azraq despised the opportunist and changing political posture of Afghanistan's politics and sternly criticised its paradoxical nature.
  • Rather than sternly criticizing liberal mores, Reagan tended to ignore them, preferring to praise conservative ones, finding in small human examples object lessons of traditional virtue.
  • Speaking recently to a group of high school students, Mr. Booker sternly criticized the mayor for raising money from developers with business interests in Newark.
  • The five-page judgment sternly criticised the manager of the workshop, William Brady, for his investigation into the allegations, describing him as 'obstructive and biased'.
  • The state board sternly criticized tentative agreements Mr. Gulotta had reached with three unions for county police officers, detectives and correction officers.
  • Yet at the same time, he sternly criticized how choices were made on which substances and practices to regulate.
  • Mimi sternly criticised Cynthia for divorcing Lennon-and letting him start a relationship with Ono-by saying she should have stopped him from making "an idiot of himself".
  • Polish bishops sternly criticized this peculiar act of devotion.
(5) roundly, bluntly, vocally
Kolokacji: 3
(6) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) immediately, directly
Kolokacji: 2
(9) implicitly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) initially, mainly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) unfairly, rightly, justly
Kolokacji: 3
(15) indirectly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 2
(16) quickly, promptly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) loudly, vociferously
Kolokacji: 2

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