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  • adjective Opposing or preventing criticism.

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anti- +‎ criticism

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Examples

  • Back in the in the London Times: [T] he greatest sign that bona fide film criticism is truly dead is the emergence of a populist and puerile strain of anticriticism.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/25. 2006

  • Already prevalent in the foam-flecked ravings of the blogosphere (where 'this movie sucks!' is the mot juste du jour) and within the glossy pages of some men's magazines, anticriticism has finally reached the formal establishment with the book 101 Movies to Avoid, writes Kevin Maher, who needs to browse that right-hand column over there.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/25. 2006

  • (where 'this movie sucks!' is the mot juste du jour) and within the glossy pages of some men's magazines, anticriticism has finally reached the formal establishment with the book Kevin Maher, who needs to browse that right-hand column over there.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Back in the in the London Times: "[T] he greatest sign that bona fide film criticism is truly dead is the emergence of a populist and puerile strain of anticriticism.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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