criticize severely

Example Sentences

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The absence of a comment was his compliment; he never hesitated to criticize severely if a job were not done as well as he believed it could be done.

From Time Magazine Archive

He then proceeded to analyze and comment on it at great length, and to criticize severely the method and tone of my Sermons generally.

From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

Again, the queen began to criticize severely the shipment of Indians from the new-found lands to Spain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various