Example Sentences

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"Makes plenty of noise," said the County Court clerk hypercritically, "for a dying man."

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

That was the end; and all our men, looking hypercritically helpful, ran to the rescue.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

They had learnt to perform their duties as men in a noble spirit, and they contrasted, sometimes hypercritically, the natural rights of men in a State with the condition under which they lived.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Thus every thing becomes, if hypercritically examined, a question of degree, “demo unum, demo etiam unum,” and the hundred years become an hour; nought is every thing, and every thing is nought.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Scaliger somewhat hypercritically for the occasion finds fault with Marco for saying the word means "a holy man."

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry