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of or at a crisis

fault-finding, detracting

demanding analytical belittling biting calumniatory captious carping caviling cavillous censorious censuring choleric condemning critic cutting cynical demeaning derogatory diagnostic disapproving discerning discriminating disparaging exacting exceptive finicky fussy hairsplitting humbling hypercritical lowering nagging niggling nit-picking overcritical particular penetrating reproachful sarcastic satirical scolding severe sharp trenchant withering
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1) decisive; critical (crucial)

2) too critical (over-critical)

3) a kind of bird with a long bill which lives in marshes; to fire shots (at a person, thing) from a hiding-place; to say unkind or critical things (about a person, thing) (snipe)

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