When these reactions are particularly intense, the patient can become morose, withdrawn, hypercritical, cantankerous, or openly defiant.
In most of the following pages the reply takes a snide, hypercritical approach to many of the basic problems.
It is very easy now, when you do not feel quite in the same state, to be hypercritical.
I must say my noble friends are rather hypercritical.
I think we may regard any excess upon that as being thoroughly legitimate, and nothing to be cavilled at by the most hypercritical economist.
I do not want to be hypercritical, but the phrasing is, representation on the school management committee of the education authority.
It really is hypercritical of them to seek to dismiss the reality of that now.
These preoccupations make them hypercritical of expenditure cuts.
