aristarch
[ar-uh-stahrk]
noun
a severe critic.
RELATED WORDS
doubter, complainant, complainer, quibbler, caviler, censor, nitpicker, carper, zapper, muckraker, disparager, maligner, slanderer, worrier, nagger, faultfinder, niggler, criticizer, censurer, fretter
Origin of aristarch
1615–25; after Aristarchus of Samothrace, who, in editing Homer, rejected many lines as spurious interpolations
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