Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Critical of oneself and one's faults and weaknesses.
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- adjective Capable of
criticizing oneself; able to findmistakes and possibilities forimprovement in one's own work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
Cyrus Saatsaz: Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari Cyrus Saatsaz 2011
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It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
Cyrus Saatsaz: Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari Cyrus Saatsaz 2011
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He will turn around and say he is pleased with what he has done and he is staying or that, because he is very self-critical, that he is not happy.
Martin Johnson left to decide his own future as chaos reigns at RFU 2011
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It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
Cyrus Saatsaz: Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari Cyrus Saatsaz 2011
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Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype.
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To reverse our decline, we need to cultivate the self-critical habit of mind.
Carla Seaquist: Self-Criticism: A New Habit of Mind Carla Seaquist 2011
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The virtues of self-critique are many: Contrary to the popular belief that standing firm is strength, the self-critical mind is actually the more secure mind.
Carla Seaquist: Self-Criticism: A New Habit of Mind Carla Seaquist 2011
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Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype.
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It's especially in craziness like this that you have to be self-critical.
Carla Seaquist: Self-Criticism: A New Habit of Mind Carla Seaquist 2011
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But please give me credit for being self-critical enough to have considered it, and curious enough to wonder at commonly held views.
Measuring success L. Lee Lowe 2009
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