English-French translations for criticism

• critique
  Nous devons continuer à critiquer et à nous critiquer. We should persist in the criticism and self-criticism.
  Franchement, je ne partage pas ces critiques. Frankly, I do not share these criticisms.
• esprit critique
  Il est temps d’insuffler de l’esprit critique dans nos institutions: la contradiction est moteur de progrès. It is time to breathe some spirit of criticism into our institutions, contradiction being an engine of progress.

Definition of criticism

• The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed
• a critical observation or detailed examination and review

Examples

• The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.

Related words

• self-criticism
• ecocriticism
• anticriticism
• neocriticism
• empiriocriticism
• criticism of the church
• source criticism
• literary criticism
• constructive criticism