animadversion

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But the gang which has drawn upon itself the pointed animadversion, although the somewhat tardy and very suspicious evidence of Madame Deluc, is the only gang which is represented by that honest and scrupulous old lady as having eaten her cakes and swallowed her brandy, without putting themselves to the trouble of making her payment.

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  1. noun Strong criticism.
  2. noun A critical or censorious remark: "entertained serious animadversions concerning the U.S.S.R. and its behavior on the international scene” (Adam B. Ulam).

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  • And when I questioned him what occasion I had given for such an animadversion, all that he could say amounted to this,-- that I sometimes contradicted people in conversation. —  Life of Johnson
  • And when I questioned him what occasion I had given for such an animadversion, all that he could say amounted to this,—that I sometimes contradicted people in conversation. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 4
  • The same animadversion might be urged against Defoe's “Colonel Jacque” or “The Fortunate Mistress.” If Mrs. Haywood sinned against the standards of the age to come, she was not out of touch with the spirit of her own generation. —  The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
  • I should not have been so ample in my account of this transaction, had not the share I bore in it been made the subject of partial animadversion, and even my dismission from my employment thought worthy of being made by some a matter of public triumph[X]. —  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
  • Dr. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a manner, that Dr. Percy seemed to be displeased, and soon afterwards left the company, of which Johnson did not at that time take any notice. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
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  1. Latin animadversiō, animadversiōn-, from animadversus, past participle of animadvertere, to turn the mind toward; see animadvert.

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  1. from Latin animadversio(n-), the perception of an object, consideration, attention, reproach, punishment, from animadvertere, past participle animadversus: see animadvert.
 

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