critic:
(plural: ‘critics‘; pronunciation: Both the letters ‘c’ in this word are said with a ‘k’ sound — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
William Mark, food & wine critic, Hong Kong
a person skilled in forming and expressing good (or bad) opinion or judgement about the good/bad or true qualities of something or someone, especially making comments on social problems, the developments in art and music, etc. (in this sense ‘critic’ gives out a positive sense);
a person/expert whose job is to make a true evaluation of an event and make comments on it, events such as sports and sportspersons, music and musicians, art and artists, politics and politicians, films/movies and film/movies production and actors and acting for newspapers, magazines and TV programmes;
a faultfinder; a Dutch uncle;
a person who regularly finds or tries to find faults with someone or something (in this sense ‘critic’ gives out a negative sense — criticizing)
Suzy Menkes, ‘fashion’ critic, Paris
J.K. Rowling’s new book has got very good ratings and reviews from several book critics.
Political critics must be extremely careful as the politicians they criticise may turn violent, and there are incidents where political critics are man-handled or even killed by the henchmen of some politicians.
It is customary for any film production to invite movie/film critics and show the film exclusively for them so that the critics comments or reviews, usually encouraging comments or positive reviews, are published in the newspapers and broadcast on TV to get more and more publicity!
Sports critics and sports persons normally do not see eye to eye with each other because sports critics criticise the players for their bad performance and sports persons accuse their critics of being partial and of trying to ruin their careers.
