critical
/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/ noun C2- A critical value, factor, etc.
- critical hit
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
Plural criticals
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Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims.
She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one’s heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.
Rachel’s critical eye.
Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering--the rows of ladies in evening dress, the critical faces, the whole atmosphere of wealth and culture about her.
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