Definition of critic

"critic" in the noun sense

1. critic

a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

2. critic

anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something

3. critic

someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments

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Quotations for critic

Make each day a critic on the last. [ Pope ]

Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The public is wiser than the wisest critic. [ Bancroft ]

Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man. [ Goldsmith ]

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. [ Max Muller ]

A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. [ Lowell ]

The man who becomes a critic by trade, ceases in reality to be one at all. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past? [ Pope ]

A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. [ Hare ]

Refined taste forms a good critic; but genius is further necessary to form the poet or the orator. [ Blair ]

When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass. [ Bobby Knight ]

If ideas and words were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with. [ J. Locke ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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The word critic is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

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Words within the letters of critic

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6 letter words in critic (Anagrams) (2 words)

critic + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving critic

Shorter words in critic

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