Critical
Critical adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Negative and critical are semantically related. in censorious topic. In some cases you can use "Negative" instead an adjective "Critical".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It also had a far more positive critical reception, getting mostly positive reviews in contrast to the mixed-to-negative reception Passenger 57 got.
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Kidz Bop is very popular with, well, kids, but critical opinion of the franchise has been pretty negative — and that's not even going into how badly casual music fans think of them.
Source: Critical Dissonance - A handful of indie films (Under the Skin, The Guest, and Night Moves, to name a few) have attracted critical praise yet are often met with lukewarm to negative responses from audiences.
Source: Critical Dissonance / Film
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