critique

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The main thrust of his critique was an anti-corruption argument, with a throwaway reference to dangers to the housing market and financial system.

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  1. noun A critical review or commentary, especially one dealing with works of art or literature.
  2. noun A critical discussion of a specified topic.
  3. noun The art of criticism.
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  • I think your critique might be about a decade late. —  Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
  • I hardly think the critique is a decade late, excepting that it should have been taken on a decade earlier. —  Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
  • In other words the critique was and is valid but so is the political environment in which someone like myself would not survive very long if my thought dreams could be heard.
  • Sprinkled throughout his critique are the thoughts of the prominent Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), who expressed a deep concern about Americans 'tendency to parade their power and prosperity before the rest of the world and to believe that they could use these assets to spread their worldview to others, if not to impose it on them.
  • Still lots of unanswered questions as far as I'm concerned -- and I don't think your critique is entirely justified of online revenue potential. —  Blue Mass. Group - Front Page
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  1. French, from Greek kritikē (tekhnē), (art) of criticism, feminine of kritikos, critical; see critic.

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  1. from French critique = Spanish crítica = Portuguese Italian critica, from New Latin critica, n., critique, properly feminine of criticus, critical: see critic.
 

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