overcritical
Americanadjective
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And how do you get rid of an overcritical inner censor?
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023
The Soup, consumers were encouraged to apply an overcritical eye toward the women they saw on the page and screen.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2022
Is he totally warm and cuddly Dad with them, but overcritical and insecure with your boy?
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2021
Miller could be overcritical at times, a notion amplified in the last few years.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 4, 2019
Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys
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