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overcritical

a. Excessively critical.

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overcritical

adj. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical]

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Dr Daruwalla said, regretting that he sounded like an overcritical father.

Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson.