criticize
verb (used with object)
to censure or find fault with.
am criticizing
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present progressiveof criticize (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I’m acutely aware of the fact that the phenomena that I am criticizing are a matter of coming to terms with my generation and my classmates, narrowly conceived.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2018
Whether it is a boast or a mea culpa, Mr. Lanier acknowledges: “I was an early participant in the process and helped to formulate many of the ideas I am criticizing in this book.”
From New York Times ● May 5, 2013
"It's not the engineer that I am criticizing," Suenens has said, "it's the locomotive."
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course," continued the voluble Fran Augusta, "you must not think I am criticizing the authorities.
From City of Endless Night by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
The English word "damn" at that time had no such awful meaning as has grown into it in our day through the wide-spread influence of the theory which I am criticizing.
From The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth
