hypercriticism
Americannoun
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Origin of hypercriticism
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Grande’s stanbase quickly retaliated, saying that those commenting on her weight were bringing back body-shaming and tabloid-era hypercriticism.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Any operatic version of that play was doomed to hypercriticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
And we can hardly be accused of hypercriticism, in directing the attention of the editors to a sentence like the following, in the article Diptera, p.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
These are but trivial faults; and if they had not been so easily corrected, it would have been hypercriticism to notice them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
It may be hypercriticism on my part, but bouquet strikes me as sadly infelicitous; and a large part of its infelicity is due to its having kept its French spelling and its French pronunciation.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English
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