implicitly criticize
Frequency: 5.53.1 per million words
to criticize in an indirect way, without stating it clearly
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- The author's latest novel seems to implicitly criticize the very genre it belongs to.
- By highlighting the 'new era of prosperity,' the president was implicitly criticizing the previous administration's economic policies.
- His comment about 'needing more innovative solutions' was seen as a way to implicitly criticize the team's lack of creativity.
- When my mother praised my sister's tidy room, I knew she was implicitly criticizing my own messiness.
- The paper implicitly criticizes earlier research by proposing a completely different methodology.
- The documentary, while not saying it outright, implicitly criticizes society's obsession with celebrity culture.
- The old system was implicitly criticized when the new, more efficient one was introduced without any fanfare.
- In his upcoming speech, he will likely implicitly criticize his rivals by focusing on his own successes.
- The director implicitly criticizes consumerism through the film's stark and minimalist set design.
- The report's recommendation for a complete overhaul implicitly criticizes the existing framework as fundamentally flawed.