critic in American English (ˈkrɪtɪk ) noun 1. a. a person who forms and expresses judgments of people or things according to certain standards or values b. such a person whose profession is to write or broadcast such judgments of books, music, paintings, sculpture, plays, films, television, etc., as for a newspaper 2.
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