Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pretended or would-be critic.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, I am just a pseudo-critic and Hollywood does not listen to me - Cage has 10 projects he is involved with through 2010.

    “Knowing” advance screening passes for KC » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • And, yes, you need to explain it in terms a pseudo-critic can understand and apply (i.e. you can't just arbitrarily declare that Darwinists don't exhibit intelligence because you want too).

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • We have here the phenomenon of the pseudo-critic arguing with circular language that criticism itself is pointless, that there is not only no audience for fiction or poetry, but that there is no implied audience for criticism itself.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Anis Shivani 2011

  • The painter who, in times of yore, exposed his canvass to universal criticism, and found to his mortification that there was not a particle of his composition which had not been pronounced defective by one pseudo-critic or another, did not receive severer castigation than I have experienced from the _unsolicited_ remarks of "damned good-natured friends."

    Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820

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