Criticess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Criticess is a noun meaning A female critic.
Meaning
A female critic.
Example Sentences
Newton and Jonathan Culler, Abbie Hoffman and Geoffrey Hartman, Janis Joplin and the Beatnik criticess Susan Sontag were all engaged in the same fervid devoir of Moral Disarmament, which continues apace today.
Interestingly, there was a comment of a German criticess (sp?) back in 1984 that red^([sic]) like that "recently, VH have shifted to the kind of music which doesn't qualify them to be called a rock-group anymore", Anja Boehm.
The dramatic criticess has done her work faithfully and with brilliant success. Her terse critique on the “Home of the Soul,” to which she considers a cornet accompaniment appropriate, indeed, is one of the features of the paper.
“So how did you get on with the criticess?” Ostermann wanted to know as they were going up the steps to the conference hall. / “Not very well, I fear,” said Swidersky morosely. “She’s a very snobby lady.” / “You should have seen the other Russian criticess who was here last year. She kept harping on about the need to distinguish between Jews and Yids.[…]”
Word Forms
- criticesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include critic, hypercritic, anticritic, hypercritick, gendercrit, gendercritter.
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