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  • 31critical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. exacting, captious, censorious, faultfinding, disparaging; judicious, accurate, analytical; decisive; urgent, crucial; dangerous, risky. See disapprobation, importance, detraction. II (Roget s IV)… …

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  • 32Ones (Enneagram of Personality) — Ones, in Enneagram of Personality teaching, are people of the psychological type represented by point number one on the Enneagram figure.According to the Enneagram of Personality there are nine interconnected ego and archetypal psychological… …

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  • 33captious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. caviling, carping, hairsplitting, faultfinding, hypercritical. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Critical] Syn. faultfinding, carping, caviling; see critical 2 , sarcastic , severe 1 .… …

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  • 34faultfinding — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. captious, carping, caviling, critical, censorious. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. censorious, captious, carping; see critical 2 . See Synonym Study at critical . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 35squeamish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. queasy, qualmish, nauseated; fearful, skittish, nervous; fastidious, picky; hypercritical. See unwillingness, taste.Ant., fearless, all consuming. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. finicky, fussy, mincing …

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  • 36overcritical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. domineering, harsh, hypercritical, finicky, picky, niggling; see also severe 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inclined to judge too severely: captious, carping, censorious, critical, faultfinding,… …

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  • 37Fastidiousness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fastidiousness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fastidiousness fastidiousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 nicety nicety hypercriticism difficulty in being pleased friandise epicurism omnia suspendens naso GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 epicu …

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  • 38Captious — Cap tious, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] I am… …

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  • 39Censorious — Cen*so ri*ous, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See {Censor}.] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. [1913 Webster] A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be …

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  • 40Censoriously — Censorious Cen*so ri*ous, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See {Censor}.] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. [1913 Webster] A dogmatical spirit inclines… …

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