Hypercritical

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  • adjective. Excessively critical; captious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Excessively or captiously critical; judging adversely from trivial or irrelevant considerations; unduly finical or unjustly severe in judgment.
  • Excessively exacting or scrupulous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
  • adjective. Excessively nice or exact.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Meticulously or excessively critical.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. inclined to judge too severely
  • Word Usage
    "Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents."
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