criticize

criticare

Dire quali aspetti di qualcuno o qualcosa si ritengono sbagliati o negativi.

In inglese semplice: To say what you think is wrong or bad about someone or something.

• Please do not criticize my cooking.
• They criticized him for arriving late.
• The report criticizes the company’s poor safety record.

Come si usa: criticize someone/something for something (She criticized the council for its slow response.); criticize someone for doing something (He criticized me for leaving early.)

Sinonimi: find fault with, attack

Contrari: praise

Espressioni comuni: criticize someone for, criticize the government, criticize a decision

valutare, analizzare

Esaminare qualcosa e giudicarne sia gli aspetti positivi sia quelli negativi.

In inglese semplice: To examine something and judge both its good and bad points.

• Students learned to criticize poems carefully.
• Her essay criticizes the novel’s strengths and weaknesses.
• He criticized the painting with close attention to its use of color.

Sinonimi: evaluate, assess, appraise

Espressioni comuni: criticize a poem, criticize a work, criticize a novel