serious criticism

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandcriticism

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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criticism
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
the act of saying that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofseriousandcriticismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious criticism

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For most of his career (he died in 1973), he encountered very littleseriouscriticismor challenge.
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Indeed, it was misleading, a joke, beneathseriouscriticism, and it got none.
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This account of what "reasonableness" means in negligence law has been the subject ofseriouscriticismfrom a number of sources.
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I do, however, have oneseriouscriticismof the book.
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My oneseriouscriticism, apart from printing errors that sometimes obscure the meaning, is the ubiquitous confusion in notation.
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First, it is a major ethical theory that, notwithstandingseriouscriticism, continues to compete for attention whatever the specific context may be.
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However, this is my onlyseriouscriticismof the book.
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Now, if this were true, this would count as aseriouscriticism.
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Calculations and experiments were described in detail whileseriouscriticismwas voiced.
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The mostseriouscriticismto this assumption is that it ignores the immediacy of understanding which allows images to play a fundamental role in social transmission.
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A moreseriouscriticismof this solution is that the height of the sheet is (2t/3)-+ the lower edge of the sheet and not zero.
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My mostseriouscriticismof the work is that, given the multidisciplinary aim, it seemed strange that the authors did not recruit someone with a complementary speciality onto their team.
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What may be the mostseriouscriticismof the life-expectancy-at-birth variable is that this is an entirely quantitative measure that says nothing about the quality of life that is lived.
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This is aseriouscriticism.
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The 2011 budget contains numerous points which are open toseriouscriticism.
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My belief is that there has never been moreseriouscriticismand discussion of the human love relationship than there is at the present day.
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He made virtually no otherseriouscriticismof our policy.
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I now come to a veryseriouscriticismindeed.
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That would have been a much more positive political action which might have led to much moreseriouscriticism.
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I think that that is a fair andseriouscriticism.
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