hyperˈcriticize, v.
[f. hyper- 4 + criticize.]
trans. To criticize excessively or unduly. b. intr. To be hypercritical.
| 1812 Religionism 55 What! hypercriticise the dead! for shame! 1835 Fraser's Mag. XII. 688 Those who hyper⁓criticised on the awkward terminations of some of his plots. 1863 Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 406, I have no desire to hypercriticise, or to see more in our poet than he himself intended. |