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What is another word for severely critical?

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Adjective
Severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners
censorious
critical
hypercritical
carping
cavillingUK
disapproving
disparaging
overcritical
captious
condemnatory
judgemental
reproachful
judgmental
cavilingUS
reproving
deprecatory
condemning
denunciatory
castigatory
scathing
accusatory
censuring
severe
cavillous
contemptuous
complaining
denouncing
stern
vituperative
unforgiving
chiding
fault-finding
pass-remarkable
full of reproof
faultfinding
niggling
quibbling
rejective
nitpicking
nit-picking
negative
pettifogging
pernickety
unfavourableUK
criticizingUS
pedantic
unfavorableUS
nagging
hair-splitting
hairsplitting
withering
criticisingUK
damning
hard to please
accusing
picky
reprobative
pejorative
derogatory
calumniatory
belittling
reprobatory
scolding
overnice
demanding
judgy
damnatory
finicky
admonitory
griping
upbraiding
bellyaching
cutting
cynical
harsh
whingeing
slating
knocking
dissatisfied
nitpicky
pharisaic
exceptive
sarcastic
nit-picky
self-righteous
recriminatory
incriminatory
over-censorious
difficult to please
impossible to please
querulous
admonishing
opprobrious
punctilious
berating
disappointed
hostile
abusive
discouraging
fussy
persnickety
disapprobatory
grumbling
particular
overprecise
fine
subtle
whining
overrefined
kvetching
discontented
critic
humbling
demeaning
trenchant
sharp
biting
choleric
satirical
lowering
grousing
grouchy
slighting
over-rigorous
over-strict
exacting
cantankerous
quarrelsome
testy
petty
acrimonious
contrary
petulant
comminatory
on someone's back
very critical
unsympathetic
denunciative
comminative
accusative
reprehensive
blameful
imputative
accusive
ultra-critical
finical
fastidious
perfectionist
choosy
overscrupulous
dogmatic
scrupulous
casuistic
sophistical
sophistic
meticulous
over-exacting
precise
exact
difficult
over-particular
nice
dainty
inflexible
uncompromising
precisionist
rigorous
choosey
intractable
tough
obstinate
overbearing
unaccommodating
unamenable
finicking
literalist
literalistic
strict
unreasonable
overexacting
hard
imperious
stringent
unbending
formalist
scholastic
delicate
obdurate
fussbudgety
hardheaded
sticklerish
stiff
tyrannical
purist
casuistical
dictatorial
unflinching
importunate
unrelenting
grim
boorish
rigid
pitiless
inexorable
irascible
resolute
immovable
unyielding
oppressive
prickly
old-maidish
crotchety
ornery
disputatious
chippy
disputative
high-maintenance
hard-line
bloody-minded
hard to satisfy
trifling
selective
discriminating
careful
faddy
refined
squeamish
painstaking
overdelicate
assiduous
sedulous
stickling
thorough
queasy
very careful
easily disgusted
“We are severely critical of the Council of the European Union for skimping on clarity and dignity here, for repeatedly trying to get by with devious manoeuvres and for repeatedly giving in to the powers that be.”
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