scrutiny
noun
a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
scrutinies
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pluralof scrutiny.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.
From Time Magazine Archive
But who, Cleinias and Megillus, will order for us in the colony all this matter of the magistrates, and the scrutinies of them?
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
Only in that city of easy companionships and careless social scrutinies would such a sudden rise have 147 been possible.
From The Readjustment by Will Irwin
Out of their heartbreaking scrutinies there have come certain determinations which are being adopted rapidly wherever the social sense is aroused.
From The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell
