criticizing
SayKRIT-i-sy-zing/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪzɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of criticize.
The senator wasted no time criticizing the new budget proposal.
Criticizing without offering any solution rarely helps a team.
Note
One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it builds the progressive (she was criticizing the plan), and on its own it names the activity (criticizing is easy). It can take an object or stand alone: criticizing the budget, or simply always criticizing. Besides finding fault, it can mean weighing merits and faults, as a reviewer does. The -ize spelling serves both American and Oxford-style British English.
criticizing is a form of criticize
criticize, verb: To point out the faults or problems in someone or something. Full entry
- Forms
- criticizecriticizes he/she/itcriticizing -ing formcriticized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- criticize → criticizing: drop the e, add -ing
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